Thank You, Thank You Love

For those who've missed the talk on the street: MKA have brought together a mid-winter festival of new writing, HYPRTXT, and it's hot. Tonight's treat was Thank You, Thank You Love, a collection of five, short, text-based works by Tobias Manderson-Galvin. Not five plays... definitely not what you'd call plays. This show is as far as you can get from the “well made play” while still residing in a loose definition of theatre. And damn, they do it well. This frenzied, subversive, anti-theatre explosion of energy hits you hard. Kinda like you'd dropped a repeater fireworks box over an open flame then looked down to see what would happen. A journey through chaotically poetic language, perfectly structured missed cues, a burlesque dance introspective and a spaceman monologue was not even slightly marred by the multitude of real missed cues and dropped lines... mostly because the audience couldn't actually work out what was ordered and what was chaos. An overreliance on self-awareness inched dangerously close to self-indulgence, but even this was just another technique used to subvert our expectations. Special mention must be made of the impeccable performance from an endearing Sam Young, definitely an actor to keep your eye on as he rises to fame. A must-see show for anyone who's ever found themselves bored by capital T “Theatre”. You'll love it. Or not. MKA won't care either way.

HYPRTXT Festival Hub, Tuxedo Cat to 28 Jun