Can I Start Again Please

Sue MacLaine and Nadia Nadarajah

- Venue: Red Lecture Theatre
- Category:
- Age Suitability: 16+
- Times: 14.50 (55 mins)
Photo Credit: Zoe Manders

BSL Performance 5-30 August (not 10 or 17)

This bold new work written by Sue MacLaine is both duet and duel as two languages, one signed and one spoken, spar across the heard and the unheard to ask; what is being described here.

Performed by Sue MacLaine and Nadia Nadarajah with outside eye by choreographer Jonathan Burrows.

An extraordinarily eloquent piece about silence and childhood sexual abuse…. burning with anger, yet beautifully choreographed and powerfully controlled.’★★★★★ The Stage

Sick! Festival commission

Reviews

  • "an extraordinarily eloquent piece...burning with anger, yet beautifully choreographed and powerfully controlled" (The Stage) - Link
  • Can I Start Again Please – devastatingly good (Lyn Gardner - the Guardian) - Link
  • "With slow deliberation MacLaine and Nadarajah take hold of their audience and shake us to the core" - Link
  • Exeunt Magazine - Pulse 2015: Looking, Watching, Signing - Link
  • "Sue MacLaine’s Can I Start Again Please is a gorgeous piece of theatre, using a mesmerising mix of verbal, visual and physical languages to tell its story." - TOTAL THEATRE - Link
  • "Multi-disciplinary, emotionally charged experience" - BROADWAY BABY - Link
  • "This profound and poetic piece—almost a performance sculpture—makes a start." - FEST - Link
  • "A beautiful examination of the power of language and the language of power" - THE LIST - Link
  • "an elegant atmosphere created for a beautiful but distressing message." - TV BOMB - Link
  • "gracefully intelligent" "You emerge wondering how a staging so kind can be so devasting" - THE SUNDAY TIMES
  • "This is a clever, and cleverly constructed, show. Go with brain engaged, ready to make meaning." - THE INTDEPENDENT - Link
  • "Nadarajah beautifully deconstructs the meaning of meaning, of how language acts from her point of view" - THE SCOTSMAN
  • "the show is marked by a formal beauty but with something much deeper, fiercer and ultimately poignant lodged at the core" "Delicate, perhaps, but devastating" - THE TIMES

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