Mogadishu at Warwick Arts Centre

Mogadishu at Warwick Arts Centre

Postby dutchman » Thu Feb 23, 2012 8:37 pm

A geeky Turkish kid is being attacked for accidentally burning a hole in a fellow schoolkid’s coat – and teacher Amanda steps in to stop it.

Moments later she’s knocked to the ground by school troublemaker Jason. Amanda is your stereotypical liberal, wine-swilling teacher who doesn’t want to make a big deal of it because she knows Jason could be thrown out, but mentions it because she feels she should do to the stand-in head.

Meanwhile, Jason has rounded up his mates to back his made-up story that she pushed him and racially abused him first.

His bus driver dad is called in to school and, having checked out all the proper procedures, soon has the acting head – well played by Warwickshire actor James Barriscale – metaphorically up against a wall. Amanda’s world, and that of her already-disturbed daughter, fall apart, and no one’s life will be the same again.

The highly-charged play is finely acted by all the cast, with the teenagers constantly struggling to keep their place in the nightmare of a modern secondary school, where friendships and loyalties are essential, and image everything. There’s lots of swearing, and also some welcome comedy moments and clever lines.

The audience, mostly filled with teenage groups was gripped, and it comes across more as a play for provoking classroom discussions rather than pure entertainment. Until Saturday.

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