Shakespeare’s Globe, London SE1
London audiences are used to the “Miserables”. Now meet the “Invisibles”. In the Globe’s first attempt to reflect modern London on its Shakespearean stage, this is how the hustlers, prostitutes, fantasists, drug dealers, drug users, do-gooders and ne’r-do-wells that populate Ché Walker’s play announce themselves.
Anyone who has walked the streets around Camden Tube station, in North London, will know where writer Ché Walker draws the inspiration for his 22 characters.
They include Golda Resheuvel’s junkie street-evangelist, as well as a forlorn Withnail-type thespian desperate to attract attention for his one-man play.