A darkly comic, claustrophobic tale of voyeurism and sexual politics.
A black comedy that is genuinely creepy is a rarity. But Jodi Gray’s Peep manages to spook the living daylights out of you, because wild though its premise is, it actually seems possible… and not even in an alternative universe.
This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Nick Hern Books
DID YOU MISS THIS PRODUCTION?
PEEP will be performing one last time on Saturday 1st April as part of Hertford Theatre Week.
Tickets for this are available here.
First performed at Bewley’s Café Theatre, Dublin, this play, by exciting new (and award-winning) writer, Jodi Gray is a darkly comic, claustrophobic tale of voyeurism and sexual politics. The play is set in Dublin, in the present day. Caitlin and May, two Dublin women, are sitting at the window: it emerges that Caitlin is the tenant, May a kind of interloper.
They’re there because the flat’s living room window overlooks another living room window where the curtains are never drawn: it belongs to the unnamed man who has ‘had’ them both, and is fully occupied having lots of other women on a speedy conveyor belt. And Caitlin and May are busy watching the antics: it’s (it seems) suitable revenge for having discovered that Our Hero videoed them both on the job.
Peeping can work both ways, and these two are bent on revenge…
A black comedy that is genuinely creepy is a rarity. But Jodi Gray’s Peep manages to spook the living daylights out of you, because wild though its premise is, it actually seems possible… and not even in an alternative universe.
Gray’s play is a grim and surreal satire on gendered gaze and fractious alliances, because these are two women divided by a common cause… Peep invites you to join their watching, if you dare.
Peep is a welcome addition to the stock of plays by young women writers, for women actors and focusing on women’s issues and perspectives… The dramatic situation is rich with possibilities which Gray exploits with considerable success… Gray’s writing is full of promise. Her characters are believable and she has a good ear for dialogue…
Spent my lunchtime laughing my arse off at Peep. The perfect play to see after a few stir-crazy days.
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