Physical Education review – boisterous, cliche-busting lesson on teen masculinity

Swansea Grand theatre School locker room banter has a sinister edge in Jonathan Houlston’s shrewd debut, which pairs the toxic tropes of Adolescence with the group dynamics of Laura Wade’s Posh In Jonathan Houlston’s strikingly astute and utterly gripping debut play, a school’s locker room is a retreat for its pupils. Here, hypermasculinity is performed en masse, first dates are held in secret and reputation-threatening confessions are whispered cautiously. We first meet the boys as a pack, and collectively they play up to the tropes we’ve been on high alert about since the TV drama Adolescenc

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