As theatres are required to remain shut until 17th May, the smarter producers are using the time to create Online streamed content and Fake Escape, in association with the Old Red Lion Online, have cleverly used the time to create a prologue to their production which opens at the theatre in Islington on May 18th and runs to 26 June. Saving Britney-the Prologue is a fifty-minute prequel to the show they plan to reopen the upstairs pub venue.
Both the prologue and the show are written and performed by a talented young actress Shereen Roushbaiani and directed by her co-author David Shopland and have been captured by Charles Flint. They envisage that we are watching a Facebook live stream by Jean Mathieson the moderator of the Britney Spears UK Facebook Group and therefore there is an assumption that we know a lot about this troubled pop star. Jean has been a fan for years and has created a timeline over the last 20 years since she was 14 of the messages behind Britney’s songs. Having not even seen the New York Times Documentary “Freeing Britney Spears” my knowledge of the background was from fragments of media stories that have followed her since she became a star.
