Tag: Asha Reid

“Let’s face it babes, you did kind of bring it on yourself”

We could all be Scarlet. A confident university student who knows what’s what and what she wants, her life is turned upside down after the consequences of a night’s heavy drinking are splashed across the internet without her consent. This video was posted by a nerdish man she previously turned down and its sexually explicit content has huge ramifications for Scarlet, not least in the course of action it leads her to take, as told in the world premiere by Theatre Renegade, currently playing in The Little at the Southwark Playhouse.

The world of sexual politics has a new frontier to deal with in the age of social media and this is what Sam H Freeman’s first play deals with in an engaging and essential way. The company of four actors all take on the role of Scarlet at one point or another, sharing her story and her experiences, but also questioning and interacting with each other. Splitting the narrative this way also throws up questions of how we are with the world around us, as each performer also plays the supporting characters in this story – or at least Scarlet’s versions of them.  Continue reading “Review: Scarlet, Southwark Playhouse”