‘Private Gigi. One Direction awaits your commands.’
A roadblock. Two young women armed with machine guns and Nutella. Days away from finishing the army.
Gigi has a secret. Dar dreamt she’d be shot today. And there’s a strange vehicle heading their way… Well, that’s okay. Nothing ever happens here. Right?
A comic tragedy about what we bury in order to survive, Josh Azouz’s play Gigi & Dar was first performed at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2024, directed by Kathryn Hunter.
‘Surreal, very funny… an anti-war message through off-kilter comedy… It’s a bit Becketty – two characters waiting around – and a bit Pintery in the humour it finds in a black situation. And it’s pretty great’
— Time Out
‘Sharply relevant… a scalpel-sharp, tragi-comic delve into the dangerous mundanity of the theatre of war… devastatingly effective’
— The Stage
‘Brutal but balanced, with complexly drawn characters… invites us to consider what happens next after the suffering’
— Broadway World
‘Absurdist tragedy mixed with gleeful comedy, with a dash of lurking Pinteresque menace’
— Reviews Hub
‘Fantastically engaging and funny with savage undertones’
— London Pub Theatres Magazine
‘Remarkable… resonates deeply… truly impactful’
— Theatre & Tonic
‘A stunning piece of theatre that manages to be confrontational and compassionate all at once’
— There Ought to be Clowns
