Tarantula

by Philip Ridley

Of course – as you've no doubt guessed – there's a big 'But Then' moment heading this way…

It's a sunny, spring day in East London.
On a street corner, two teenagers kiss.
One of them is Toni. This is her first kiss.
It makes her very happy.

But someone is watching.
Someone who doesn't care about her happiness at all.
And they're about to change Toni's life… forever.

Philip Ridley's thrilling new play is a startling exploration of identity, memory, love, and the lengths it takes someone to free themselves from the web of their past.

Genres: Plays

53 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 29, 2021

Reviews

[Doug · Rating 4 out of 5]

A longtime Ridley fan (I gave the first major conference presentation on his theatrical work in the US back in 1990), and still a huge admirer of his new work. For the past two years, due to the vagaries of performance during the pandemic, he's been writing full length monologues exclusively, as is the present example. This is a harrowing story of a young girl who unwittingly makes an enemy of the wrong person, and the consequences and ongoing trauma of such an action. Although it reads quite well, apparently it was even better in performance: https://theartsdesk.com/theatre/taran....

[Tuti · Rating 4 out of 5]

harrowing

[Matthew Govaere · Rating 4 out of 5]

never gonna look at anyone in public again