The Future is Another (Brontë) Place

We have mentioned before the Brontëiteness of the comedian Josie Long. Her latest show, The Future is Another Place, is performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival:

The Future is Another Place
Pleasance Dome
Date 10-28 August
Time 19:00

Josie Long is back again with her fifth Fringe show. Come along! This is a show about feeling newly tormented by the world around you and about optimism and despair. But that sounds more serious than it is. It'll be a silly, manic round up of all kinds of things. It will probably have a play in it where I play every one of the Brontë's too, if that's your bag? The show has two clear aims: 1. Fight some sort of a cool gang or something. 2. Fight injustice.

The Guardian reviews it, not forgetting the Brontë bits:

It's not all politics. There's an amusingly coy excerpt from Long's one-woman play about the Brontës, and an account of a recent road accident in which this sci-fi buff thought she had died. ("This is classic dead-and-don't-realise-it," she thinks, on coming round.) Sometimes the naivety is overplayed, sometimes there's too much apologising for the naivety – but mainly Long strikes an adroit balance between fun, moral outrage and indignant mockery of our hideous powers-that-be.  (Brian Logan)

EDIT: The Irish Times:

“I don’t want to be ranting and raving,” says Josie Long. “I want to be writing a play about the Brontë sisters in which I have every role.” Long makes clever use of index cards, consulting them after her reluctant wallows: “I like cooking,” she reads out of one hopefully, before immediately returning to topics such as tax, the “1980s tribute government” and the false dichotomy between condemning and condoning violence. (Laura Slattery)

Categories: Humour, Theatre