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"There's absolutely no denying it is a cracking piece of writing" - The Stage
Having received four and five-star reviews, an Offie nomination and - in competition with 26 other shows - an award for Best Writing in the Bitesize Festival 2024, Broken returns to Riverside Studios this May.
Set in Shepherd's Bush and centred on the end of a relationship, Broken fuses Shakespeare with modern dialogue and is an expressionistic satire - written entirely in verse - on the highs and lows of falling in, and inevitably out, of love.
Reviews:
The romance and grandeur of Lyon’s rhyme, which often borrows exact phrases from Shakespeare, Wordsworth and others, is cleverly offset by the frequent mundanity and ordinariness of the context” ★★★★ Maryam Philpott, The Review Hub.
“How would Shakespeare have expressed this? - He probably wouldn’t have changed a thing. Pretty much everything that’s spoken inBroken is quotable". ★★★★ Michael Davis, Breaking the Fourth Wall.
“Broken is one of those rare things where you feel as though you are watching a classic in the making.... I was completely seduced by its soaring musicality and delicious smuttiness. As they say - if it ain’t broke don’t fix it, and there’s nothing broken about this show” ★★★★★ Verity Williams, London Pub Theatres
Written and Directed by Matthew Lyon
BOY - Matthew Lyon
GIRL - Lauren Maxwell
Lighting Designer - Connor Divers
Assistant Lighting Designer & Technician - Melody Mengyun Liu