‘Private Gigi, One Direction are here – naked – awaiting your command.’
A roadblock. Two young women armed with machine guns and Nutella. Days away from finishing the army.
Gigi has a secret. Dar dreamt she’d be shot today. And there’s a strange vehicle heading their way…
Well, that’s okay. Nothing ever happens here. Right?
The world premiere of Gigi & Dar – a comic tragedy about what we bury to survive – created by Josh Azouz and Kathryn Hunter, two of the country’s most exciting theatre artists.
Kathryn Hunter is an Olivier Award-winning Actress and Director. She has directed for Told by an Idiot, RSC, National Theatre, Royal Court, Young Vic and Shakespeare’s Globe.
“Kathryn Hunter’s brilliantly inventive production is the funniest account of a Brecht play I have ever seen” – Sunday Times on Mr Puntila and his Man Matti
Press for previous work by Josh Azouz:
ONCE UPON A TIME IN NAZI OCCUPIED TUNISIA, The Almeida 2021
★★★★ “Josh Azouz’s play is deeply shocking and oddly elating” (Paul Taylor, Independent)
★★★★ “A slow-burning absurdist thriller [with] precisely applied doses of bleak black humour” (The Stage)
THE MIKVAH PROJECT, The Orange Tree 2020
★★★★ “Achingly intimate.” (Alice Saville, Time Out)
★★★★ “A poignant, thoughtful piece about belief, identity and healing, delivered with a beguilingly light touch.” (Sarah Hemming, Financial Times)
BUGGY BABY, Yard Theatre 2018
★★★★★ “Cootchy-Cootchy-Christ-Almighty. Extraordinary” (Matt Trueman, WhatsOnStage)
★★★★ “Like a surreal Harold Pinter play, Josh Azouz’s brilliantly warped fairytale, with its images of Rapunzel, Red Riding Hood and a beanstalk that must be destroyed, is very weird and uncomfortably funny.” (Lyn Gardner, The Guardian)
