Vicky Jones' THE ONE opens at the Soho Theatre
Vicky Jones’ award-winning debut play, THE ONE, has now opened at the Soho Theatre in a production directed by Steve Marmion.
Harry and Jo are up all night drawing the battle lines of their relationship with sex, violence and Wotsits. A viciously funny play, The One invites you into the world of a couple trapped in a destructive and violent cycle of love and lust.
The play, named the winner of the Verity Bargate Award (for which it was chosen from over 800 entrants), is playing until 30th March and tickets can be booked here.
Across 65 short, sharp, potentially shocking minutes, Vicky Jones’s astonishing debut play vents opinions and shows you things on stage with a temerity that puts you in mind of someone skipping through a minefield as if looking for daisies.
Telegraph ****
Jones’ writing is superb. It dances, it jumps, it flips; it waves its arms in the air. It’s as dirty as a lav atory , but as wise as Solomon. It nev er sits still - in a good way . And behind the insights and the jokes, it’s well grounded in emotional truth. This is new writing as it should be.
The Stage
written with agonising insightfulness and a fearless swagger ...it’s going to make an awful lot of other plays look pallid,
mealy-mouthed and, frankly, just a bit boring.
Exeunt ****