{"id":205,"date":"2017-05-06T07:27:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T07:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/2017\/05\/06\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsdark-vanilla-jungle-at-sydney-fringe\/"},"modified":"2017-05-06T07:27:21","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T07:27:21","slug":"httptheblurb-com-aureviewsdark-vanilla-jungle-at-sydney-fringe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsdark-vanilla-jungle-at-sydney-fringe\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Vanilla Jungle at Sydney Fringe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dynamic young artist-driven theatre company Mad March Hare (<em>A Moment on the Lips<\/em>) return to this year&#8217;s Sydney Fringe with a beautiful, breathtaking drama about one girl\u2019s craving for family and home\u2026 and the lengths she will go to achieve them. Claudia Barrie gives a tour-de-force solo performance in award-winning <em>Dark Vanilla Jungle<\/em> &#8211; a powerful one-hander by one of the UK\u2019s greatest contemporary writers, Philip Ridley (<em>Tender Napalm<\/em>, <em>Vincent River<\/em>, <em>Piranha Heights<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><em>Dark Vanilla Jungle<\/em> is an intricate, eye-widening story. It follows a young girl who has been abandoned by her family, becomes entangled with a gang who have groomed her for sex and then finds herself so alone she attaches herself to a seriously ill soldier. In her mind he is the one person left who cannot reject her.<\/p>\n<p>Co-directed by Fiona Hallenan-Barker and Emma Louise &#8211; who collaborated on Ridley\u2019s <em>Piranha Heights<\/em> in 2012 &#8211; the production also reunites actor\/producer Barrie with production designer Benjamin Brockman who worked together on the popular and critically acclaimed Shivered earlier this year. Plus movement coach Shondelle Pratt. Together they aim to create a world that is simultaneously menacing and poetic in the intimate and edgy Old 505 Theatre. The audience become voyeurs, teetering on the verge of becoming participants. There is nowhere to hide\u2026<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/135170688\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The issues addressed in this play are devastating and all too current says Barrie: the dangers women face all over the world on a daily basis; grooming of young women for sex; emotional and physical abuse and what can happen to a vulnerable child who slips through the cracks of the system. \u201cVery few plays confront such complex issues so courageously. There are also moments of great humour; both bittersweet and paradoxically tragic. This play speaks right to the heart of each audience member. It is not \u2018easy\u2019 theatre. 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