Brompton Bound

The Drayton Arms Theatre is currently operating under the auspices of Gene David Kirk, late of the Jermyn Street Theatre. I cycled over there on Monday night to catch All Alone, an experimental piece of nightmare proportions that examines themes of internet trolling. Written by Kirk, the work is achingly graphic and features three actors who really went for it in a way they probably won't get to do too often. Experimental drama at it's most dramatic!

Yes it was hard work and no, it didn't really appeal to me in narrative terms although I do value the point it makes so very, very clearly. Aside from checking out the new space - quite near the Finborough so it will undoubtedly have an automatic following - I also bumped in to Alexis Gregory, who I hadn't seen in years but who I had just started following on Twitter only a couple of weeks before.

As it happened Alexis, who I last saw on stage in Stonewall, Rikki Beadle-Blair's remarkable adaptation of his own screenplay, is about to have test his new drama there entitled Bright Skin Light. Sadly I can't make it this week but I'll keep an eye on it's progress and hopefully catch the play at a later date.