Neil Grutchfield
Dramaturg

I worked on this production as dramaturg. Writer Segin Lee French and director Steven Luckie fused together Theatre of The Absurd, the modern musical and videogaming to create a high energy sex satire. The production played an English national tour in Autumn 2006

“Prepare to be transported into a world where fantasy meets reality. Who will win? Who will lose? only one way to find out – Load da game!”

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“Black British theatre has found an appealingly quirky voice in Nigerian Mancunian playwright Segun Lee Fren…You could call (Bootycall) a comedy of modern urban manners, except that manners are the last thing required of today’s would-be “bad bwoys”. The ruder the better – so learns the geeky teenage anti-hero, Jason, who, in a hybrid between videogame, fantasy and real-life, must advance through various levels to lose his virginity and become a ‘player’. The writing summons the full horror of modern adolescence, with white kids now desperately copying their black peers, but it does so with its tongue firmly planted in its cheek, at least until the grim climax. Respect to director Steven Luckie and his cast.” Daily Telegraph