We are thrilled to see BRACE BRACE by Oli Forsyth come to the stage of The Royal Court to incredible reviews and a sold out crowd. Directed by Daniel Raggett, it features Craig Els, Phil Dunster and Anjana Vasan and is designed by Anna Reid.
About BRACE BRACE
“A plane fell out of the sky, and we happened to be on it.”
A man hijacks a plane. The plane begins to fall. Fight or flight. Back on the ground, survivors Ray and Sylvia struggle to reconcile their responses to this life-changing event. As cracks appear in their relationship, one closes themselves off, the other can’t focus on anything else. A gripping story of the people we become in the aftermath of catastrophe.
About The Davidson PlayGC Bursary
Oli Forsyth is the recipient of the first Davidson PlayGC Bursary, a fund we set up with our friends at the PlayGC to support new theatre writing. The play is also part of The Royal Court Theatre’s Jerwood New Playwright Programme, supported by Jerwood Foundation.
Watch below the 7 minute long clip from the Royal Court of Lisa interviewing Oli about the play and his appreciation of what being awarded the bursary means to him: “Like spinach to Popeye!”
BRACE BRACE opened on Thursday 3 October and runs to Saturday 9 November (runs 90 mins) and tickets are sold out!
Read the reviews
The Stage
“Anjana Vasan gives an electrifying central performance in this lean, focused and visually arresting drama about PTSD.”
London Theatre
“Have you ever experienced something so nerve-shredding that the fallout from it all but consumes you? That vertiginous feeling underpins every bracing moment of Brace Brace, the lean, mean, 75-minute play from Oli Forsyth that follows on from Giant in once again making the Royal Court a theatrical must.”
Theatre Vibe
“Brace Brace is quite an extraordinary play that deserves the closest of looks. It is unusual to find all of the dramatic elements working in unison to produce something as good as this.”
