Lowkey Dying reveals some potential at Clapham’s Omnibus Theatre
”I felt like there was no previous, and no future, and I used to be only a heat ball of silence”
The upstairs house on the Omnibus Theatre is a brand new one for me, making additional use of this transformed library to create a très bijou studio theatre for this Clapham venue. The payoff is that administrators have to work fastidiously to utilise its potential successfully, one thing that doesn’t all the time occur right here.
Heather O’Sullivan’s Lowkey Dying focuses on Louise, a dental receptionist who, from a web based perspective, appears to have her life as sorted because the rows of apps on her smartphone. Offline although, in actual life, there are hints that every one is just not as Instagram-filtered-perfection as all that.
What we see is Louise’s personal closely filtered notion of actuality – tough relationships with colleagues who don’t have any drawback along with her, matches on Hinge which by no means dwell as much as expectations – and the deep sense of loneliness that permeates her life, whether or not she sees it or not.
Wrtiter and performer OSullivan populates this world and its supporting characters with actual texture, guaranteeing we’re typically hooked in, as this does come on the zero-sum expense of extra time investigating Louise as a personality. This is exacerbated by route that regularly hides the primary character because of poorly thought-about sightlines.