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When to run, Sophie Woolley

I’ve met Sophie, so I don’t think this review, if you can call it that, can be unbiased. Suffice to say, I enjoyed her show WHEN TO RUN greatly.

It’s going to be on again 15 August at the Regents Park Open Air Theatre, which I think will be a brilliant venue for it. It’s then at a few more venues which you can check here.

Her show is a mix of comedy and character performance, which falls between stand up comedy and the monologue.

She interweaves character (or even caricature) monologue stories and touches upon the emotional heart of why her characters run. They are all women. And they are all missing something or someone. This missing part also interweaves.

Running to look good. Running to compete. Running to make up for a lost part of your life.

However, perhaps my enjoyment mainly stems from: the straight up jokes, the commitment to performance and the comedy characters which although larger than life somehow still seem a bit true.

If you like comedy with a story, you’ll like Sophie’s show. Also it’s less than an hour.

Sophie is also very good about making her work available on a captioned basis, so if you’re hard of hearing this show would also suit (although not the Regents Park performance).

July 16, 2007 | Filed Under  

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2 Responses to “When to run, Sophie Woolley”

  1. soph on July 17th, 2007

    heyyy, just to say that i totally agree with what ben is saying about my uh sophie’s show. it’s rad. check out http://www.sophiewoolley.com for tour dates – its on at soho theatre too on 12-15 aug (no captions at regents park)

  2. soph on July 17th, 2007

    doh, it’s on at soho 12-15 sept

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    Recent plays include, for theatre: Nakamitsu, Yellow Gentlemen, Lost in Peru, Lemon Love. For radio: Places in Between (R4), Patent Breaking Life Saving (WS).

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