Review: Towards Youth, a play and a research project, explores drama classes around the world GlobeArts
, a new play on at Crow’s Theatre, is a curious hybrid of the academic and the artistic.
The question explored for audiences in the show: “As democracies thin out all over the world, is there a radical hope to be found in the humble high-school drama classroom?” As guest artists at an old-fashioned drama class in Athens, Gallagher and Kushnir work with students to improvise scenes about refugees and the financial crisis, much to the annoyance of their teacher; and in Tainan, Taiwan, they listen in as a drama group full of emotional 18- to 22-year-olds explore anxieties about their future in the only, and imperilled, democracy in the region.
Standouts include Loretta Yu, throughout, but especially as a passionate and political drama director in Taiwan, and Zorana Sadiq as the funny and formidable teacher endeavouring to make India a safer place for women, one improvised scene at a time.is interesting as a quick portrait of a society and its struggles glimpsed through the lens of a drama class, it’s hard to really figure out what the episodic play adds up to as a whole.
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