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Attention Seekers are delighting audiences with their intriguing collection of shorts at the Brewery Theatre. Below are some fantastic reviews that have come in.

“The energy emanating from the actors on stage is remarkable, and their enthusiasm reaches right out to include the audience – during many of the scenes you feel part of the production. The evening passes by in a flash, surely a sign of a good show!” WHATSONSTAGE ****
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“The individual plays link in the way they explore intimacy through creative cannibalism, a passionate Medusa, bratty dummies, newspapers and bull fighting. With some shocking revelations and words best projected over the heads of younger ears, this production is full of spontaneity and humour. With good performances from all the ensemble and great live music, Short Shrifts kept you interested and offered something for every taste.” GUIDE2BRISTOL
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The plays are bizarre and often beautiful. The writing is superb, both real and surreal: clever, lyrical, and often savagely funny. I absolutely loved the cadence of language and the theatricality of form in this boundary-pushing writing.” CRYSSE MORRISON, PLAYS INTERNATIONAL
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Short Shrifts is twelve short plays by Globe and National playwright Peter Oswald, from tragedy to comedy - a bullfight in an office, a ventriloquist’s abusive love for his dummy and God’s first girlfriend to name a few.

With the dark underworld sound of Nemo Jones, Short Shrifts keelhauls the audience from one extreme of theatre to the other. All the disparate elements that Oswald wove together in large-scale verse plays for Mark Rylance at the Globe, and the National Theatre, are here reassembled in short form. Peter Oswald performs with Josephine Larsen and acclaimed musician Nemo to combine the extremes of physical theatre with language that is at times heightened and extravagant, at times earthy and direct.

For more about the show and for booking information click here.