Creative Reviews UK

If you had one day left to live your life, how would you go about your day? In Nick Hyde’s Double Act, we see that final day of our protagonist, split over four timestamps in a very brechtian nature, and told in the spirit of two performers on stage, allowing us to experience the inner thoughts that run through our heads, even at the daunting moments of our lives and divisive decisions; in the case of our protagonist, this comes with bumping into an old school friend, confronting a train warden, or having their last supper with an old flame. With speech and characters split between Nick Hyde and Oliver Maynard, the idea to showcase this day through an unnamed character really allows us to recognise ourselves in moments of despair, where we can almost at times see ourselves in some of these situations, and mirroring the actions of those we see on stage, I mean let’s be honest, we have all at one point in our lives wanted to order a towerful of fast food burgers, or take out all our mone...