Kickstart your evening with Che Walker's brilliantly buzzy 50-minute play, the second in Shunt's A Play, a Pie and a Pint season. Crazy Love is a blast of fresh air, and it sits very neatly in a vault decked out for a wedding reception. The bride is Billie (Phoebe Whyte), a posh Notting Hill trustafarian about to marry one of her own. But with the help of her bridesmaids - Cordelia (Julia Sandiford) and Shiv (Suzie McGrath) - she recounts the period leading up to the wedding as a Bonnie-and-Clyde-style adventure with a man from the wrong side of the west London tracks.
Walker's play is blissfully funny as it distils Billie's Bambi-like amazement at discovering an earth-moving passion and a world she might otherwise never have glimpsed. It is also astute in the sharp-eyed and sharp-tongued observations of Shiv, the black waitress Billie meets in a local cafe who introduces her to a Notting Hill she has never experienced. Shiv says of the movie Notting Hill: "What a snow-job. I didn't recognise west London at all. It was as if we had been ethnically cleansed."
This is a play that suggests multicultural, cosmopolitan London is a myth, and portrays a city segregated into its own distinct tribes. But this hilarious 50 minutes is also a tragedy, as it charts the filling of Billie's empty heart with a full-strength crazy passion that sets her life alight, and then the dousing of the flames and the acceptance of a life more ordinary. Three spot-on performances, dialogue that spits and George Perrin's pacy direction make this a play that is never ordinary.
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