Every night on the news there’s literally always some sort of massively catastrophic end-of-the-world shit going down: genocide, earthquake, terrorism, school shooting – it’s endless, you know? And I always wonder ‘how would I cope, if that happened to me?’
Transferring to Trafalgar Studios 2 after a sell-out run at Theatre503, Stuart Slade‘s BU21 follows six Londoners in the aftermath of a terrorist attack. By turns terrifying, inspiring, brutal, heart breaking and hilarious, BU21 is verbatim theatre from the very near future.
‘Intelligent, questioning and very funny’
The Stage *****
‘When did you ever see a terror-plot rom-com? BU21 dares you to laugh – because if you can’t laugh, right, the terrorists have won. Haven’t they? …a theatrical joyride’
WhatsOnStage ****
‘Slade is an Alan Bennett for a millennial generation’
Broadway World *****
BU21 by Stuart Slade
Trafalgar Studios 2
4 January – 18 February
Writer – Stuart Slade
Director – Dan Pick
Designer – Alex Green
Lighting Designer – Christopher Nairne
Sound Designer – Owen Crouch
Kuleshov Producer – Holly Hooper
Production Manager – Richard Irvine
Alex – Alex Forsyth
Clive – Clive Keene
Izzy – Isabella Laughland
Ana – Roxana Lupu
Graham – Graham O’Mara
Floss – Florence Roberts