Name Your Company Shock N Awe and - in Glasgow... [Derived Headline]
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Name your company Shock N Awe and - in Glasgow parlance - you are cruisin' for a Bruisin'. Or maybe a brisk kicking to cut you down to size. But as this five-strong, all-male company from Wales begins to flex Muscle, a sense of well-directed shock does emerge as the guys openly express the painful uncertainty of what "being a man" means these days - and by the end, we are all in appreciative awe of performances that can speed-switch believable characters, spinning from robust comedy to touchingly melancholy reflection, with no props beyond some chairs and six moveable screens.
The five men on-stage are of different ages, origins, body types. You could say that all they have in common are XY chromosomes, alongside a willingness to mix text with movement and deliver both with fierce conviction. The stories they tell have their roots in verbatim accounts. They range from the sheer wonderment of a first- time father to the re-enactment that celebrates the sexual and political prowess of a mine-working grandfather and successful strike-leader in the 1920s.See the full content of this document
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Name Your Company Shock N Awe and - in Glasgow... [Derived Headline]
It's swaggeringly, gleefully funny yet it's as achingly sad as earlier stories of how family dysfunction misleads a boy into criminality or a man, just out of prison, is weathering the uncontrollable rages...
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