All is Pink in West

Berkshire County

“What’s something so fragile that even saying it aloud breaks it? - Silence.”

Written and directed by Harry Daisley

Alec Clegg Studio, Symposium Hall, The Packhorse & Lion and Unicorn Theatre

July-Dec 2023

“The most perfectly pitched comic performance of the Fringe”

All is Pink in West Berkshire County is a 60-minute, “masterful farce” that follows an eccentric roster of larger-than-life socialites, the Abbey family, as they welcome their daughter’s new boyfriend into their stately home. Set in a near-future where all meat consumption has been banned, a sumptuous dinner party takes place. As drinks pour and conversation dances around class, morality and queer identity, it is revealed meat is back on the menu this year…human meat…

Laced with twists and turns, the play explores a literalisation of the class ‘food-chain’ in contemporary Britain amounting to a violent end. This project confronts an assortment of urgent current affairs: class-divide, homophobia, consumerism and climate change.

★★★★★ Binge Fringe – “a true revelation…rich, ravishing and roll on the ground funny.”

★★★★★ Fernyhough Arts Review – “the most perfectly pitched comic performance of the Fringe”

★★★★★ EdFringe Review – “Razor sharp writing”

★★★★★ The SMU Review – “Tightly plotted, with not a wasted line of dialogue”

 ★★★★1/2 The Student – “All is Pink features a stellar cast, incredible production quality, and finishes with a series of plot twists you absolutely won’t see coming.”

★★★★ Theatre Weekly “jaw dropping.”

★★★★ Everything Theatre “explosive and hilarious.”

★★★★ Fringe Biscuit “a masterful farce.”

★★★★ Theatre and Arts Reviews “writer Harry Daisley certainly has a gift for the macabre and surreal that you can see through this production.”

Writer & Director - Harry Daisley Assistant Director - Cam Griffiths Co-Producer - Eliza Christy Co-Producer - Ellery Turgoose

Michael Abbey - Matthew Dangerfield Denise Abbey - Siobhan Ward Eve Abbey - Maisie Stalham Rory McDonnell - Benjamin Greenwood

Photos courtesy of Isaac Morton (production photos) and Amber Constantine, Amelie Cooke and Max Brown (studio photos).

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