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Review: Winners, The Wardrobe Ensemble
Celebrating their 10th anniversary, The Wardrobe Ensemble has put together Winners – a hilarious and despairing history lesson in manipulation, money and capitalism.
The high energy show kicked off the pop-up venue, The Theatre on the Downs, the new theatre festival running at Breaking Bread from August to October.
Directed by Jesse Jones (Death Drop, West End) and Helena Middleton (Education, Education, Education, West End), Winners invites you to the grand opening of Mr Winner’s 10th million branch of Winners restaurants. That’s a lot of winning.
Prepare to be taken on a journey by Mr Winner and his trusty team of fast-food employees through 15,000 years of food production and capitalism – expect appearances from Queen Victoria, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Regan and many more.
The high-octane and bold performance has you laughing for the full 90 minutes – until the lights come up and you realise that you’ve been laughing at a very real and very depressing narrative of exploitation and destruction.
The lights, the dances and the laughs come thick and fast with little room for pause. Winners provided a fantastic and clever narrative into the American Dream and our need to constantly want more.
Winners in rehearsal. Credit: Emily Greenslade.
Winners is on at Theatre on the Downs until August 28. For the full list on events at The Theatre on the Downs visit: www.theatreonthedowns.co.uk
Main photo: Chelsey Cliff
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