Chit chat: Screaming success
If that all sounds a little tame to you, too, then you might like to try the new production of Philip Ridley’s controversial 2005 play Mercury Fur, which is being staged in a ‘pop-up space’ in a disused schoolhouse just round the corner from Selfridges.
Mercury Fur features child-killings, mutilation and a torture scene involving a meat hook. As the show’s publicity puts it, it’s “not for the faint-hearted”. Indeed, so alarming are the sounds emanating from the venue that one of the performances was almost brought to a halt by police after a concerned local resident called 999, thinking that the show’s violent scenes were being played out for real.
I suppose it’s an endorsement of sorts.
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