Review: Tuesday by Alison Carr

When I first read the description of this play on the cover I wasn't entirely convinced. Set in a school playground on an ordinary Tuesday, the sky suddenly rips open and teachers and students are sucked up into a parallel universe. I really wasn't sure how on earth this play would work, but it's absolutely brilliant. I really thoroughly enjoyed reading it and it was a real surprise. Funny, interesting and original, Tuesday would be a great play to stage in a school, adaptable for a cast size of 16 to 60.

Originally commissioned as part of the 2020 and 2021 National Theatre Connections Festival, this is a great play for a young cast of performers. I really enjoyed Alison Carr's author's note at the start where she said she wanted to write ‘something that would excite, entertain and intrigue the young performers taking it on and set theatrical challenges to explore and overcome.’ She really encourages anyone producing it to tell the story how they would like and have fun with it, which is fantastic. ‘It's yours now,’ says Carr, which really encourages you to stage it as you see fit.