{"id":477537,"date":"2025-10-06T06:22:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/477537\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T06:22:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:22:14","slug":"lambeth-fringe-2025-fatal-floor-bread-and-roses-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/477537\/","title":{"rendered":"Lambeth Fringe 2025: Fatal Floor &#8211;\u00a0 Bread and Roses, London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Writers: Richard Fitchett, Wally Sewell, and Liam O\u2019Grady<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director: Anthony Shrubsall<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Three souls find themselves on an unusual lift being led through the afterlife by a strange and quite cryptic lift attendant. Each character is taken to revisit the point in their life they most regret, and they are given a second chance to make a decision that could change everything. The play follows each of these characters as they step off the lift and are given the opportunity to relive a fateful interaction from their past, either confronting an ambitious colleague, offering advice to a young niece, or even answering a marriage proposal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fatal Floor opens with the lift attendant, played by Peter Saracen, in the elevator with a recently deceased, wildly successful street artist named Joe (Alex Jonas). Projected on the wall behind them is a large red down button and a number in the mid-2000s slowly ticking downwards. The circumstances of this lift are slowly revealed to Joe as the lift attendant explains that he has passed away and is now given a second chance to redo the moment he regrets in life. <\/p>\n<p>It becomes clear that the numbers on the wall are years counting backwards in time, aiming to drop Joe in 2029. Saracen and Jonas both deliver stand-out performances, Saracen\u2019s sardonic and dry humour complementing Jonas\u2019s invested and truthful portrayal of a man caught in the afterlife. As the lift descends, more characters join the play, including Jake (Simon Brandon) and Tara (Emma Riches).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The play is a collaborative effort, with three playwrights, Richard Fitchett, Wally Sewell, and Liam O\u2019Grady, each responsible for a different character\u2019s story. These three separate voices make the play as a whole feel a bit disjointed structurally and thematically. It plays like a series of vignettes, but none of these vignettes has any common thread. None of these characters is able to resolve their past or learn a lesson from it in a way that leaves each story feeling abrupt and incomplete.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reviewed on 4 October 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Writers: Richard Fitchett, Wally Sewell, and Liam O\u2019Grady Director: Anthony Shrubsall Three souls find themselves on an unusual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[158699,158700,158701,748,158702,393,158703,4884,154798,158704,257,158705,6080,158706,158707,2764,16,15,158708],"class_list":{"0":"post-477537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-alex-jonas","9":"tag-anthony-shrubsall","10":"tag-bread-and-roses","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-emma-riches","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-fatal-floor","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-lambeth-fringe-2025","17":"tag-liam-ogrady","18":"tag-london","19":"tag-peter-saracen","20":"tag-review","21":"tag-richard-fitchett","22":"tag-simon-brandon","23":"tag-theatre","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-wally-sewell"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115325786107697857","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}