Review: ATC’s Girls & Boys will leave a mark

Review: ATC’s Girls & Boys will leave a mark
Beatriz Romilly sets the stage on fire in a solo performance few will ever forget. (Image: ATC)
Ben Moore
The history of theatre, even the most cruel and confronting theatre, has tended to be defined by implication and inference. Girls & Boys, penned by British stage and screenwriter Dennis Kelly, was first performed in 2018 and is clearly part of the spearhead of a trend. I believe the 2020s will be defined by a total abandonment of subtlety, best exemplified by the smash hit 2023 film Barbie.Although it's significantly darker than the bubblegum feminist film, Girls & Boys shares a blatantness of message that makes it a jackh...

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