Old Bridge London Reviews and Tickets

67%

(1 Rating)

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Mixed

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Members say

Relevant, Intense, Great acting, Dated, Cliched

About the Show

A love strory told across time and history, looking at romance against a backdrop of conflict.

In 1988 Yugoslavia, a girl gives her heart to a young boy as she watches him jumping from a bridge. From there, Mina and Mili must endure great hardship as their future together seems certain while all else does not. Based on true events in an embattled Europe. Igor Memic's play is the winner of the 2020 Papatango New Writing Prize.

Show-Score Member Reviews (1)

Cliched, Dated, Great acting, Intense, Relevant

See it if You like plays of non English writers' stories from lesser known parts of the world

Don't see it if Don't like predictable plots and for some reason having 2 narrators doing the same job to come and talk in between transitions

Critic Reviews (3)

This isn’t a perfect play by any stretch – a narrator is a clunky device, for one thing. But it is a remarkably assured debut, shot through with ardour and pain, recalling history that’s recent and raw.
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Memic can really write, but this promising if flawed debut suggests that he should let his characters speak for themselves.
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The performance exposes problems with the script. The biggest ... is imbalance between narration and dramatisation. With strong jokes and jolts, Memic shows high promise but next time needs to go deeper and clearer from his jumping-off point.
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