We live in interesting times all right. Theatres, which depend on bums on seats, resorting to bums on streets in a documentary drama about sex workers?
But Unprotected, set in an anonymous office space with a video backdrop of the city, gives every side of the story and the truth is stranger than fiction.
It’s also more harrowing, hilarious (Liverpool taking a leaf out of Amsterdam’s book with its newest tourist attraction) and unbearably poignant - the voiceover of a woman’s sobbing anguish, desperate to stop taking drugs, the man who broke both arms smashing a wall when told about his murdered sister.
Leanne Best is stunning as Ali and the cast brilliantly does justice to the variety of roles. It’s an astounding project to take on and to put on - the naked city, exposing the guts and the grime, the grimness. They could tell tales like this anywhere in this country. So they should and in this way, bringing issues to the fore and examining them from all angles.
In any group of people, who really knows about the others, what they do, why they do it? How they get by? Who cares anyway?
At the end of this performance the silence was deafening, then the applause, for an unmissable theatre experience and a tremendous achievement.
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