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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Kate Wyver

The Last Show Before We Die review – heady, gut-wrenching final words

Separation anxieties … Ell Potter and Mary Higgins in The Last Show Before We Die.
Separation anxieties … Ell Potter and Mary Higgins in The Last Show Before We Die. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/the Guardian

The boldest, bravest and strangest show that Ell Potter and Mary Higgins have ever made may also be their last. Where their previous productions have been moving, joyous, even revelatory explorations of bodies and the way we inhabit them, The Last Show Before We Die feels born of something wilder.

Ell and Mary live together, work together, and used to sleep together. Now they are figuring out if it’s time for their complicated, overly intense relationship to come to a close. Made with cocky confidence and total abandon, this is a sweaty, heady, gut-wrench of a show about endings and what we gain from each other, even when we have to say goodbye.

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