Originally published on A Younger Theatre
With so many potential topics for theatre to explore, there really is carte blanche nowadays for a writer to paint the canvas of their work. So many plays look to tackle deeper intellectual questions and deliver an answer with something to discuss afterwards. In this case, the beauty of TOMCAT is that it throws so many questions at the audience in such a short space of time that people leave wondering which one to broach first. It bombards the audience with intriguing and controversial material and makes no attempts to answer any of these points itself. Whilst it would be easy to feel cheated that the play doesn’t present its opinion, James Rushbrooke here has managed instead to deftly pose the questions and allow everyone to draw their own conclusions, which ultimately enhances the whole performance rather than detracting from its ambiguity.
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