Half Breed, theatre review: Funny, gripping show packs a punchPosted in Articles, Arts, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive, United Kingdom on 2017-09-29 02:52Z by Steven |
Half Breed, theatre review: Funny, gripping show packs a punch
London Evening Standard
2017-08-14
Veronica Lee
 Impassioned: Natasha Marshall performs in Half Breed Rebecca Need-Menear |
Natasha Marshall gives an impassioned performance in a semi-autobiographical show, writes Veronica Lee
“I am that mixed-race kid, 50/50. I’m about as black as it goes round here,” 17-year-old Jaz says in Natasha Marshall’s semi-autobiographical piece about being the only non-white girl growing up in a small English village.
Jaz, who lives with her white grandmother in the West Country, dreams of going to drama school while her best friend, Brogan, whose main ambition in life is to have a baby, talks of London as if it were Mars.
But they’re tight, these two, kindred spirits brought together by both having spent time in the care system, and Brogan, despite not being able to fathom why her friend is doing it, is as determined as Jaz that her Shakespeare audition speech will be perfect…
Read the entire review here.