'Help Yourself' gets glowing review at OffCut festival 2025

https://alastairzyggusramblings.blogspot.com/2025/07/theatre-review-off-cut-group-2-53two.html?m=1

I recently directed Lee Thompson's Help Yourself at 53twos 'OffCut play festival'.

This review from Alastair Zyggu highlighted our play saying:

"The final play to review here however, if I were to have given my vote, would have been the one. It was for me the only one which had the potential of expanding into a full length play and the only one that offered any hint of theatricality beyond the confines of what was already written."

"...'Help Yourself' by Lee Thompson (directed with skill by Keane Harrison) offered much more. The clever use of sound and lighting was brilliant in bringing us into this perhaps dystopian scenario, whereby a young female, with blood on her hands, runs away from her attacker? her victim? a group of vandals?, and finds herself inside a shop. The shopkeeper finds her, and believing her to be a robber (the obvious first conclusion) ties her up to a chair, but does not phone the police. There is no end, it leaves you wanting more and yes, we truly did want to find out all the answers to the unasked questions. Dark, mysterious, captivating."

(I was very happy to see my work recognised in this way)

-Keane :)

Katie Ann Lever and Jenna Wrigley in Help Yourself at 53two