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\"Tezlym<\/a>One day I was at the National Theatre watching Lorraine Hansberry\u2019s epic masterpiece \u2018Les Blancs\u2019.\u00a0 A disturbing and haunting story about the end of the colonial era in an imaginary African country.\u00a0 It was a compelling cast, on a big stage, which brought sight and sound and smells alive with an element of Hamlet.\u00a0 The next day I was over in East London, at the Pond in Dalston, watching \u2018Knife Edge\u2019, where 80% of the cast including the leading actor, Tezlym Senior Sakutu, were acting for the first time.\u00a0 I was no less absorbed in this drama because they are not seasoned actors.\u00a0 \u2018Knife Edge\u2019 has an air of Shakespearian tragedy and comedy along with haunting scenes and there was never a dull moment.\u00a0 Not even after the play when cast and audience come together for a little jig and to feast.<\/p>\n

Knife Edge is about the Girl With No Name [GWNN] who has anger issues and her lone struggle against the odds for success.\u00a0 She was raised in the care system since she was eight years old when her mother died.\u00a0 We look into her life, at her available options, the decisions she makes and how she ends up in prison.\u00a0 This is not another poverty porn<\/a> play.\u00a0 Far from it, David Watson\u2019s cleverly written play presents a spectrum of perspectives from marginalised less privileged youth.\u00a0 Their anger, dreams, frustrations, hierarchy and hope.\u00a0 Most of all it provides the audience with an understanding and an opportunity to adjust attitudes towards our disenfranchised youth.<\/p>\n

It opens with the GWNN, her boyfriend Aaron and Dog, in Nando’s.\u00a0 Now you know we are talking modern Britain.\u00a0 We are guided through the play by storytellers: who also act like the fairy godparents if not the conscience of the GWNN.\u00a0 I do mean guided!\u00a0 The audience walks through the venue to witness various scenes.\u00a0 I liked this aspect, it added to the feeling of being a real life spectator in the life of GWNN.\u00a0 It was that feeling that stops me from dwelling on the use of the four letter words, the C word in particular.<\/p>\n

As the audience moves to scenes, there is musical accompaniment.\u00a0 The music along with the lighting gives the murder of the GWNN\u2019s father a deeper potency.\u00a0 The music is also responsible for lifting us at various points during the play.\u00a0 The props which included two litre soda bottles strapped together, give a real sense of \u2018chicken and chips\u2019 London.<\/p>\n

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This play is asking a lot of its cast, comedy and tragedy, dreams and despair, anger and love!<\/p>\n

Boy, do they deliver.\u00a0 Tezlym Senior Sakutu plays the GWNN superbly.\u00a0 She brings depth to a character who it would be all to easy to dislike.\u00a0 Rather, you find yourself in her corner, despite the horrible revenge she extracts upon Aaron: whose life ambition is to have a threesome.\u00a0 One feels her anger, fears and vulnerability. Tezlym is a star in the ascendancy.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A wonderfully convincing cast support Tezlym.<\/p>\n

After the show, the audience can mingle and eat with the cast.\u00a0 It is a warm and refreshing way to end the evening.\u00a0 I made two new friends from the audience.\u00a0 The food is good and try the fish; it’s delicious.\u00a0 Talk with the cast.\u00a0 They are bright and funny.<\/p>\n

Knife Edge is moving and beautifully acted, particularly Tezlym Senior Sakutu.\u00a0 It has packaged hope into an entertaining real life bundle.\u00a0 I left the play a different person.<\/p>\n

Connect with me on Twitter: <\/b>www.twitter.com\/imjussayin2<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Knife Edge<\/a> is at Pond, Dalston,\u00a0until June 12. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Book now to avoid disappointment. Details here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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