The sun is coming up on the morning after the night before. Don Pope has done something he shouldn’t have and the cat is yowling again. So begins ‘Kitty Litter’, a play which flickers between the surreal and the everyday as it brilliantly portrays the drug-fuelled adventures of a gang of Bristolian teen fantasists. Thomas Butler puts in a superb performance as the confused Don, his mind slowly unravelling throughout the show. Unfortunately, it’s ten minutes too long, and, more irritatingly, the programme gives away a major plot twist; these niggles aside, however, this is a well-scripted and excellently acted piece of theatre: the kind of comedy-drama ‘Skins’ only wishes it could be.
theSpaces On The Mile, 5 – 27 Aug (not 7, 14, 21), times vary, £6.00 – £8.00, fpp274.
tw rating 4/5
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