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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Arifa Akbar

Gunter review – strange tale of murder, witchcraft and football fizzes with fairground energy

Raising the past with playfulness … Hannah Jarrett-Scott, Julia Grogan and Norah Lopez Holden in Gunter at the Royal Court Upstairs, London.
Raising the past with playfulness … Hannah Jarrett-Scott, Julia Grogan and Norah Lopez Holden in Gunter at the Royal Court Upstairs, London. Photograph: Alex Brenner

A trio of women dressed in football kits enact a witch trial as an anarchic piece of gig theatre. It is as strange as it sounds, extravagantly unrefined and sometimes abstruse but it brings a garish, outlier, fairground energy which feels vital and exciting in a space for showcasing new work.

The trial of 1604, excavated from the annals of half-documented history by co-creator, Lydia Higman, began with a football match.

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