{"id":9363,"date":"2018-06-15T22:09:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=9363"},"modified":"2018-06-15T22:22:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T21:22:07","slug":"the-drill-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=9363","title":{"rendered":"<strong>The Drill | HOME<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Drill | HOME | 15\u201316 June 2018 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do you know how to save a life? Do you know how to administer CPR when all around you are losing their heads and blaming it on you? Whether a rehearsal or the real thing, <em>The Drill<\/em> serves as a reminder that it may take more than knowledge of basic first aid to cope in a crisis \u2013 it may take getting used to living on the edge, but are we not all already living on the edge in an uncertain world? We might be more prepared than we think. <\/p>\n<p><em>The Drill<\/em> was created by the award-winning multimedia performance company Breach, who create politically engaged, formally innovative plays that blend pared-down onstage drama with video drama documentary \u2013 in this play, corporate videos of workplace disaster rehearsals run by emergency experts. <\/p>\n<p>The play opens with the talented cast of three \u2013 Amarnah Amuludun, Luke Lampard and Ellice Stevens (who also wrote the play) \u2013 casually addressing the audience on a prop-free stage. Each begins to narrate a high-octane monologue, relating their own, everyday personal anxieties and traumatic experiences \u2013 narrations that run throughout the play \u2013 occasionally interrupting and engaging with each other with punchy, probing dialogue. <\/p>\n<p>They have been brought together at a workplace crisis preparation class. 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