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WINNER
'Pick of the Fringe'
Manchester Fringe Awards 2018
'Pick of the Fringe'
Manchester Fringe Awards 2018
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"The play is unapologetic...a powerful, whirlwind of a play" - Remote Goat
"A powerhouse play. Fast, funny, moving and f**king marvellous." - Simon Naylor, Artistic Director, 53two Manchester
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"It's everything radical theatre should be." - John Godber, playwright
"So much gob-smacking talent in this company & production." - Matt Wilde, former Associate Director National Theatre Studio
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Abbi and Beth want to be Kate and Naomi, walking the fashion week in Paris or partying with britpop stars in London. Instead, they’re stuck in a small northern town, incarcerated to pre-fab science labs and cold wet playgrounds.
Teenage friendship is tested and the bonds of loyalty severed in an audacious theatrical presentation, mixing music and fashion in an intercultural, funny and tender new play.
Set in the mid 1990s and late 2000s, taking in London and New York, POP’s narrative moves at breakneck speed to a soundtrack of britpop and the backdrop of Blair’s Cool Britannia, from past to present and the contemporary aesthetic of The Face, Vice and ID Magazine.
Created by Event Horizon Theatre Co., POP features Martha Godber (RIGHT, Old Vic Theatre, London; The Empty Nesters’ Club, John Godber Company) and Sade Malone (Cuckoo, Soho Theatre; BAFTA Scholarship Winner 2017) in an unflinching and raw, prescient, funny and tender new production.
Teenage friendship is tested and the bonds of loyalty severed in an audacious theatrical presentation, mixing music and fashion in an intercultural, funny and tender new play.
Set in the mid 1990s and late 2000s, taking in London and New York, POP’s narrative moves at breakneck speed to a soundtrack of britpop and the backdrop of Blair’s Cool Britannia, from past to present and the contemporary aesthetic of The Face, Vice and ID Magazine.
Created by Event Horizon Theatre Co., POP features Martha Godber (RIGHT, Old Vic Theatre, London; The Empty Nesters’ Club, John Godber Company) and Sade Malone (Cuckoo, Soho Theatre; BAFTA Scholarship Winner 2017) in an unflinching and raw, prescient, funny and tender new production.
Written by Will Hammond