A Fight Against… (Una Lucha Contra) London Reviews and Tickets

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About the Show

Pablo Manzi’s English-language debut work exploring the notion of community building across the Americas.

Developed while in residency at the Royal Court,  'A Fight Against…' follows the desperate lives of a lecturer in Chile, a study group in the USA, a guard in the desert, a hangman in Mexico and a woman who won't stop dancing in Peru. Pablo Manzi's work examines whether violence brings us closer together and what it takes to create a community.

Critic Reviews (5)

Sometimes the dialogue flickers into quirky life. More often, the director Sam Pritchard allows it to fall into static exchanges where, on Rosie Elnile’s functional set, there is little to nourish the eye.
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There are nods to Harold Pinter and Caryl Churchill in its eerie normalisations of extreme violence, yet it’s most obviously in conversation with South America itself, with its incomprehensible history of disappeared people and terrifying political regimes.
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[The] playwright should be encouraged to aim bigger to fulfil the potential of a play that feels like sketches for the epic political drama he could write.
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Direction from Sam Pritchard confidently steers a strong ensemble cast of six, as they deftly multi-role between a revolving door of characters whose lives have been impacted by violence.
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Every element of this performance works together beautifully; the set is understated, but it becomes more and more layered as the play unfolds.
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