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BUBBA & LUVVIE: KINGS HEAD THEATRE: Bubba & Luvvie by Angus Strachan is a play set around the midnight meeting of an aging madam and a drunken police officer at a cliff top. What seems like a chance meeting quickly turns into a series of stark coincidences as they discover that their stories are bound by certain shared events. The play explores the meaning of truth when felt wholeheartedly from two polarised points of view.
Continually playing with language – a quick moving colloquialised soliloquy – and emphasised by video projections, the two actors hold the atmosphere and tension throughout. Using prolonged mime and gesture to emphasise the importance of linguistic traps and verbal aggression, I was left in a rapid fire haze of what was real and what was imaginary to the characters. But then that’s the whole point: what is the murky truth to these two people and in a wider context, is it necessary to reconcile two viewpoints, so that others may understand? It seems truth is not made of stone. Under closer inspection it is closer to a fluid.

Bubba & Luvvie is thoroughly enjoyable theatre and a great example of how a space can be filled with the sheer presence and dominance of wordplay and its physicality. Thumbs up!