Soho theatre,London
Rita Kalnejais’s startling, very funny interspecies romance features a grieving vixen, or a fatalistic mole and some hilarious chickensThere are no fleas on the Australian playwright Rita Kalnejais,who gives us this fable about the love affair between a teenage boy and a female fox. There is no funnier or more startling play in London, and if the evening doesn’t fairly sustain itself into the gothic, or bloody ending,there is plenty to admire and even more to like in this Romeo and Juliet with fur, directed with delicious swagger by Steve Marmion. Basti is a unhappy, and underdeveloped 14-year-ancient who is bullied at school and whose mother has had a nervous breakdown. He wants to cheer her up by making her a fur stole out of one of the urban foxes that visit the garden nightly. But when Rdeca,a young vixen out on her own for the first time, gets caught in his trap, and the two discover that they can understand each other and bond. As chat-up lines fade,offering to rid your potential lover of her fleas is probably tough to beat.
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Source: theguardian.com