Brute
Soho Theatre
After a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2015, Izzy Tennyson’s Brute comes to Soho Theatre. Brute (winner of the 2015 IdeasTap Underbelly Award) is an exciting piece of new writing based on the true story of a rather twisted, horrible schoolgirl. Tennyson’s truthful writing is fearless, laced with a deliciously scabrous humour.
Being 14 is an awful age. You’re not a very nice person at 14. No one knows this better than new girl Poppy who has just started at an all-girls’ state school. There are rules with no logic, sadistic jokes that aren’t actually funny and the most sinister games played out of boredom. And, you’d better not be fat or clever or you’re fucked.
Set in a girls’ school in a provincial English town far away from cosmopolitan and cultural influences, Brute explores memories of the protagonist’s intensely passionate female friendships as they escalate into violence.
