Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

The mix of slapstick and sermonising is certainly original: In Bad Taste reviewed

Plus: an ingenious monologue about a small girl who needs the loo

Sarita Plowman in her ingenious monologue 'The Fall' for Dazed New World Festival. Image: Will Alder 
issue 24 October 2020

In Bad Taste is a slapstick comedy about five female terrorists who murder the governor of the Bank of England. They chop him to pieces, cook him in a casserole and devour the lot. Their plan is to ‘eat the rich’, literally, and to trigger a worldwide revolution. After this grimly hilarious opening the script takes a sharp U-turn when one of the women makes a speech denouncing misogynists.

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