With so many brilliant shows running this week, we are spoiled for choice. Here are our top five Vault Festival picks for week 6.
Admin
27 – 28 February
Oisín moved to London to pursue his dream of becoming socially mobile. Now, he is having an existential crisis in a Pret A Manger toilet, trying to remember his mindfulness techniques. Exploring the relationship between class, capitalism and health, ADMIN is about being poor, precarious and lonely, and adding items to your Watched List on eBay in the hopes of feeling better.
Work Bitch
27 February – 3 March
A story of pulling pints and sweeping floors – from a Saturday job refilling coffee cups in South Africa’s young rainbow-nation to a curry house in Camberwell nearly two decades later, we follow Waitress through a life well worked. The lovers, the friends, the adopted families and the terrible tips that made her.
This play is for generation side-hustle. The three jobs and shared flats and no property prospects. Work Bitch is a play about the work we do and how it defines us
Miss Fortunate
1 – 3 March
People say if you don’t laugh you’ll cry, but you can totally just do both. What else can you do when you’re an orphan at 21, your mum is in a box, and you have a face that launched a thousand ships but a waistline that made them turn back?
Being a woman is complicated. Do you tell the boy you woke up next to that your mum has just died, or is that a bit much? Maybe you tell him that’s why you need saving or that it’s actually a relief, mother’s day was getting so expensive, or maybe you’re ok telling him you’re not ok.
Alcatraz
27 February – 3 March
It’s Christmas Eve, and things look bad. Mum’s left, Dad’s drunk, and Granny’s been locked up. But Sandy’s seen the movies, and she knows what Clint Eastwood would do.
She’s made a decoy head, and she’s borrowed Dad’s bolt-cutters. Tonight, she’s going to Alcatraz. And she’s busting Granny out of there.
Alcatraz is a play about social care, responsibility, and how far we will go to look after those we love.
Ladykiller
27 February – 3 March
Vault Festival 2019 Pleasance Award Winner.
A hotel room, a maid and a dead woman. It’s not what it looks like, really, it’s not. It was self-defence… and anyway the woman was asking for it. The chambermaid considers herself to be a pretty normal person; she reads books. She pretended to read the party manifestos at the General Election. She’s even read The Psychopath Test and she’s pretty sure she’s not one so…
Ladykiller is a blood-soaked morality tale about victimhood, power and flipping the gender rule book on psychopathy. Ladykiller charts one woman’s journey from violent oppression to bloody revolution; a jet-black comedy for the age of the gig economy.
