Private Gigi. One Direction awaits your commands.' A roadblock. Two young women armed with machine guns and Nutella. Days away from finishing the army. Gigi has a secret. Dar dreamt she'd be shot today. And there's a strange vehicle heading their way… Well, that's okay. Nothing ever happens here. Right? A comic tragedy about what we bury in order to survive, Josh Azouz's play Gigi & Dar was first performed at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2024, directed by Kathryn Hunter. 'Surreal, very funny… an anti-war message through off-kilter comedy… It's a bit Becketty – two characters waiting around – and a bit Pintery in the humour it finds in a black situation. And it's pretty great' - Time Out 'Sharply relevant… a scalpel-sharp, tragi-comic delve into the dangerous mundanity of the theatre of war… devastatingly effective' - The Stage 'Brutal but balanced, with complexly drawn characters… invites us to consider what happens next after the suffering' - Broadway World
"'Surreal, very funny... an anti-war message through off-kilter comedy... It's a bit Becketty - two characters waiting around - and a bit Pintery in the humour it finds in a black situation. And it's pretty great'"
Time Out
"'Sharply relevant... a scalpel-sharp, tragi-comic delve into the dangerous mundanity of the theatre of war... devastatingly effective'"
The Stage
"'Brutal but balanced, with complexly drawn characters... invites us to consider what happens next after the suffering'"
