title. angel
date. 4th - 7th August 2019
venue. The Water Rats, WC1X 8BZ
size. professional (the camden fringe)
reviews:
"[Angel] offers a gut-wrenching view of how it feels to be 20-something years old and stuck in a day-in, day-out job just to make ends meet. While these characters might seem bored and self-possessed at first glance, they actually show a dejected reaction to a society that expects the world but offers almost nothing in the way of resources. Their words arrive in the conventional representation of young vacuity, but with a wink.
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This play is Waiting for Godot meets a cult of bacchanalia. The production especially heightens the senses as the actors make full use of the cosy theatre space, inviting their audience to feel fully immersed in the action."
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- Lora Maslenitsyna for The Upcoming
https://www.theupcoming.co.uk/2019/08/05/camden-fringe-2019-angel-at-the-water-rats-theatre-review/
"The direction by Rebecca Goh is really responsive to the theatre space provided and is overall well accomplished from a technical perspective. There’s never really a time where an actor has their full back to the audience, and there’s always movement on stage. There is a great ensemble moment towards the end of the show that uses the group well...
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I would recommend Angel, it’s an intense, competent production with a definite potential to develop further. It is exciting to watch and enthrals the audience in the world of Angel and her revellers."
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- Vicky Olusanya for Camden Fringe Voyeur
https://camdenvoyeur.wordpress.com/2019/08/06/review-angel-at-water-rats/
"This is a great concept – the disused theatre instead of the Macedonian court, Angel instead of Dionysus, a group of young people instead of the Bacchae and the Landlord as the villain who dared to mock the child of God. The staging is excellent and the Water Rats theatre becomes the disused theatre in the story without us needing to imagine anything. Overall there’s strong acting and Mia Foo, Jessica De Carvalho, and Jay Lafayette Coward all demonstrate great comedic timing and work very well as the chorus.
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The play ends with a beautifully choreographed ensemble piece. I wouldn’t have changed anything in those last moments... This is certainly the beginning of a great show with a lot of potential. Well done."
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- Arghierenia Kyrimi for The Fringe Review
"[Angel] is an intense cross of sci-fi and politically charged drama which begins with mania and ends with more questions than answers. Under direction of Rebecca Goh and Sussan Sanii, the entire cast give assured performances. Characters are uniformly odd with most eschewing the traits of a well trained polite society in favour of an unspecified notion of freedom. And if freedom is the drug, dance is the selected form of dosing – this is a raving army under command of an angel on earth pursuing two vendettas simultaneously – those caught in the cross fire of her hell-bent intentions are not her concern.
Angel is certainly one of the more entertaining and oddly charismatic shows to be seen at this year’s Camden Fringe. If you like your theatre ‘different’, intense, riotous and more than a little ambiguous, Angel is a good way to go."
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- Always Time for Theatre
https://alwaystimefortheatre.com/2019/08/08/angel-beware-the-wronged/