"A Wonderfully Inventive performance"

Two more reviews from A Younger Theatre here. You can read their thoughts on Like You Were Before here and I Guess If The Stage Exploded... here!

Bittersweet Ache

Here's some feedback from Mary Brennan of The Herald after she wached Deborah Pearson's Like You Were Before. Hopefully it will give you a bit more of an incite into this lovely show:

"Deborah Pearson’s Like You Were Before is about her own past – it features a video of her last day before leaving Canada for the UK – but the footage of her friends, her voicing-over her previous words, as if trying to re-enter the frame, her asides about the background to people and places, all have a tremendously moving universality. The camaraderie, the farewells; the bright-eyed, youthful faces: Pearson’s camera catches it, holds it. We all share the bittersweet ache that stirs with recollections of moments we’ll never have again."

Like You Were Before

Deborah Pearson
5.30pm, Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th May 2011 @ Arnolfini

Like You Were Before uses a video from the last day Deborah lived in Canada five years ago to explore the gap between the person she was in 2005 before she left her native Canada, and the person she is now. We watch as she attempts (unsuccessfully) to re-insert herself into the frame, creating a show that laments the fact that time keeps going. This is a show about moving forward, backwards.

Like You Were Before was a must-see show at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe, winning a Herald Angel Award and being short-listed for the Total Theatre Award for innovation.

“A beautiful, accomplished, bittersweet and philosophical work on love, loss and memory.” The List