A group of friends gather to celebrate Lulu's birthday. A night filled with booze, tension and hidden truths. Alex receives repeated phone calls from an unknown person, and one thing is certain: he refuses to answer them in front of his girlfriend, Jules, or the others. The play climaxes in the pressure-cooker dinner party, where these underlying tensions eventually bubble to the surface.
GAS examines the role of defence mechanisms within relationships and how they distort or obscure the truth between individuals.
Writers: Thomas Dallimore and Tarquinn O'Toole
Director: Tarquinn O'Toole
Actors: Thomas Dallimore, Rosa Ablett-Johnstone, Amber Louise Louka, Lainey Drake and Daniel Chisholm
Hero Image Photographer: Darren Gill
Sexual references, Drug and Alcohol references, Use of herbal cigarettes, Themes of emotional manipulation and gaslighting, Imitating Vomiting/Gagging, References to Psychosis/Mental Health.
Visual Ratings: 50%
Aural Ratings: 50%
Suitable Age: 18+
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