★★★★★ Silk Road (How To Buy Drugs Online)
Silk Road plays at Trafalgar Studios 2 until 1 September 2018
Check out the trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GlolSyHTS4
The strapline for Alex Oates’ play Silk Road, reads How To Buy
Drugs Online, an intriguing and fascinating offer and one that's explored with
tremendous success in this captivating exploration into the alternative world
of drug dealing. This isn't the everyday world of shady dealers but what was,
in effect, an illicit eBay for all you class A requisites.
For those, like me, not in the know, Silk Road, was a narcotics
marketplace on the darknet where it was possible to order everything from crack
cocaine to painkillers and have it delivered to your own door by your
unsuspecting Postman Pat.
We ‘meet Bruce Blakemore, a struggling young Geordie tech-head
and the unlikeliest international criminal mastermind you can imagine. From his
base in Whitley Bay, Bruce and his Nan find themselves sucked into an
Underworld Wide Web of new-age pirates, local gangsters and tea-cosies.’
Having interviewed many real online drug vendors, writer Alex
Oates has created a fascinatingly brilliant piece of writing from his research
into this secretive but seemingly honourable self-regulating world.
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Josh Barrow |
While Silk Road is basically a monologue, we nevertheless
experience several fascinating characters, all brilliantly played by Josh
Barrow, that make up this alternative narcotics firmament.
Dominic Shaw directs with fantastic pace and cleverly cuts
between the various characters and setups with a quick, precise filmic
dexterity. But it's Josh Barrow’s performance that ultimately brings together
the sublime writing and excellent direction. He plays Geordie Bruce with
consummate, inherently-knowledgeable ease. But it's the speed and accuracy that
he momentarily morphs into his hysterical lovable, tea-cosy-knitting Nan, to Mr
Shaggy, local entrepreneur, club owner, care home operator and drug dealer that
doesn't cease to astound. His musical theatre, am dram-loving bouncer is a
particular joy! Using that trite expression, Josh Barrow is undoubtedly one to
watch, and that in my estimation is a severe underestimate – he’s outstanding!
Silk Road has had a fascinating history and development process,
and is apparently the first show ever funded by the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. As
impressive as that is, this is an entirely engrossing, assured and dextrous
production, with joyous writing and superb acting. Whatever its provenance it's
guaranteed a long, fruitful life and it will be intriguing to see it in future
incarnations, and no doubt there will be many!
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Alex Oates and Josh Barrow |
Check out the trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GlolSyHTS4
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