Review of Angus Thongs and Even More Snogging

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Angus, Thongs and Even More Snogging. Wednesday 22nd February 2010 The Quarry Theatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds – an intimate amphitheatre venue. Directed by Ryan McBryde. Angus Thongs and Even More Snogging follows the story of a 14 year old Georgia Nicholson as she chases the exclusive attention of Robbie the lead singer in the school band, The Stiff Dillons. The troubled teen shows the audience how she thinks she hates her daily life and wants to live with ‘the sex god’ Robbie. We see how the downfall of Georgia’s arch enemy, Wet Lindsey (Robbie’s girlfriend), makes Georgia thinks she has a chance at Robbie. Just when she thinks she has him (a bit of snogging has happened by this point) he announces that he wants to save the planet and moves to Scotland. Georgia is convinced that life isn’t worth living until a new boy, Massimo, moves into town. This smooth talking Italian quickly seduces Georgia and before long there is even more snogging. But this story has considerably more depth to it than one might think as Georgia begins to realise just how important friends are, and how you shouldn’t have to chase a person to be happy. On the way to the theatre I admit I was fairly sceptical of this play, it turns out I was wrong. The director’s decisions in this play made it very entertaining to watch and the atmosphere was good. I think the play was aimed mainly at teenage girls but mum, dad and even teenage brother would enjoy it. The way that the play was put together makes me think the director was trying to give it a bit of a pantomime and musical feel because there was a lot of singing, dancing and interaction with the audience. However, there is no doubt that it was a play exploring the ‘important’ issues of a teenage girl’s angst caused by attracting the attentions of older ‘sex gods’ when actually happiness is staring her in the face. The set
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