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Lucky Tonight! review – Romeo and Juliet story told in the form of a pub quiz

Traverse, EdinburghAfreena Islam-Wright invites the audience into her life by interspersing her version of The Chase with tales from her British-Bangladeshi upbringingThere is no shortage of one-person plays about the pressures of growing up in a conservative culture. But safe to say, Lucky Tonight! is the only one that is 50% pub quiz. On the one hand, it offers Afreena Islam-Wright’s coming-of-age tale about her Old Trafford upbringing, as the youngest – and most wayward – daughter in a family of Bangladeshi origin. On the other, it provides several rounds of general knowledge quizzes and her own version of The Chase.The ostensible reason for this happy and eccentric hybrid is Islam-Wright’s parallel careers in the arts and as a quiz host. She is a practised hand at reassuring clueless contestants, jollying along the uncertain players and celebrating the victors. She circulates electronic pads on which the questions will be displayed and asks us to form teams. Mine is called Critical Mass, natch, and has the good fortune to include someone who knows what she is doing. We don’t win, but we hold our own. Continue reading...

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