Fog

Reviews / Votes

The dialogue is exquisite. It does more than simply jump off the page, it leaps out grabs you by the throat and smacks you around. A truly original well-written piece that succeeds in doing what I always want from a good play. To learn. To think. To laugh. To cry. To feel. -- Roy Williams OBE, playwright Beautifully pared down, the rhythms of life are really there. The writers have given a voice to those who have none. -- Jane Boston, Senior Lecturer and Head of International Voice * Central School of Speech and Drama * A play like this helps to dash the misconceptions that children get into the care system because of something they have done wrong. A moving experience to watch as the story unfolds and one that needs to be put there for the public to see. -- Pam Redican * Principal of Wings School, Cumbria and Nottinghamshire. Winner of the Pride of Britain Award for her dedication to the education and care of 'difficult' young people * Uncompromising depiction of urban life..this is a raw punchy piece. -- Henry Hitchings * Evening Standard * Powerful new play ... The dialogue continually bubbles with unpredictable comic life ... Agonising and funny at the same time. -- Paul Taylor * Independent * A raw edgy piece.
Punchy dialogue..a sharp understanding of displaced people.
The play's portrait of a social system that offers care but no protection leaves an uneasy aftertaste. -- Michael Billington * Guardian * A gripping new chamber play.
A disturbing portrait of a feckless white youth.
The storyline's fragmented glimpses are intriguing. -- Kate Bassett * Independent on Sunday * A bruising sad play.
Very good on the painful relationship between father and son.
A painful, promising play..it ends wisely and movingly. -- Sarah Hemming * Financial Times * The dialogue is always lean and accurate.
Absorbing, unflinching. -- Dominic Maxwell * The Times * A play written - rather exceptionally - by a writer/performer in her sixties and an actor in his twenties.
Clarity of intention..that thoroughly grips. -- Dominic Cavendish * Daily Telegraph * Unique as a piece of new writing.
Fog has a tenderness and subtlety.
A subtle study of lives adrift. -- Caroline McGinn * Time Out * Hard-hitting and devastatingly pointed writing. -- Martin Newman * Huffpost Culture * A fierce heart breaking snapshot of the concrete horizons and posturing demotics of inner-city London estates.
Effortlessly captures the under-siege mentality of inner-city culture..in a play you wish was twice as long. -- Claire Allfree * Metro (London) * There is real craft in this writing collaboration. -- John Nathan * Jewish Chronicle * A bruising lyrical short about teenagers in London whose quality and impact suggests that 2012 in London's only wine bar theatre, will be as impressive as it was in 2011. -- Caroline McGinn * Time Out * A thumping, emotionally fraught and brilliantly written play.
Emotionally devastating. -- Aleks Sierz * Stage * At its best, the language of the play feels like it's been inhaled through a water pipe and then exhaled to the beat of drum 'n' bass. It burns, it stings, it makes your blood tingle...there's an intensity and a rush to the dialogue that gives the work its emotional punch...Fired up by this linguistic energy, Fog is sometimes frightening in its anger and desperation. It rushes along like a roach flushed down a plughole. A story that leaves you stunned by its violence, and its terrible sadness...Fierce and terrifying. -- Aleks Sierz * Arts Desk * Funny, powerful and very, very real, it is also mesmerisingly sad..masterful writing put(s) Britain's care system on trial in courageous new play. -- Martin Newman * Mirror * A painful, promising play, raising the thorny issue of fatherless boys and of young care leavers and their difficulties. -- Sarah Hemming * Financial Times * The dialogue continually bubbles with unpredictable comic life.
A collaboration made in the vicinity of heaven. -- Paul Taylor * Independent * 'Fog' is unique as a piece of new writing. Tash Fairbanks and Toby Wharton's (play) benefits richly from the verve and faux-yardie argot of youth and the poignant wisdom of experience.
Aching and explosive. -- Caroline McGinn * Time Out * Funny, powerful and very, very real, it is also mesmerisingly sad. -- Martin Newman * Mirror *