GRIP, N2P’s third original play, ran for two nights in Actor Awareness’ Working Class Stories season, was picked up for a week-long run at the Tristan Bates, and most recently played at the International Youth Arts Festival in Kingston where it won the Audience Choice Award.
GRIP. is based on one version of a true and previously untold story, and bravely takes on one of the most divisive oversights in today’s legal system using “Lynchian horror and Pinteresque humour” (The Play’s the Thing).
Trev is surrounded by an unsettling world that glitches, skips and repeats like an old tape recording. As we watch Trev and his Dad try to overcome their masculine inhibitions to deal with the loss of Trev’s mother, it becomes clear there’s something else going on… The only person who shares Trev’s anxious confusion is Louise, but when their lives collide on an ill-fated night out, the two are forever changed. Trev is arrested and the circumstances of his class, gender, and mental health coalesce into a tale that is both inventive and cautionary.
“a fascinating piece of work which grapples intelligently with serious issues of mental health, identify, memory and how the state treats criminal suspects who have mental health issues”
“GRIP finds its strength exploring the prison sentence of masculinity”
“AN ensemble-led production which makes ferociously good use of movement and lighting to both tell its story and disrupt it”
“★★★★”