Bullyache’s ‘A Good Man Is Hard to Find’ Opens
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- Bullyache (Courtney Deyn and Jacob Samuel) presented the dance theatre work “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” at Sadler’s Wells East, accompanied by five dancers.
- Tor Studio designed a set featuring a wall of broken glass that evokes a truck crash, symbolizing the 2008 global economic collapse.
- The piece shifts mid‑show into a game‑show format that portrays bankers as the culprits of the financial crisis.
- Bohemian Club inspired a ritual segment reminiscent of the “Cremation of Care”, staged to Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony in C minor.
- Bullyache composed an original, “cranium‑shaking” score and songs of pain and loneliness for the performance.
- The reviewer describes a surreal tableau—including a naked man, a man with suit trousers around his ankles, and a man urinating into a whisky glass—followed by a cleaner singing “Ave Maria” while mopping fluids.
Why it matters: The performance gives audiences a visceral, artistic lens on the fallout of the 2008 financial crisis, exposing the moral emptiness of banking elites and secret societies; it pushes the theatre scene to confront political accountability while risking being dismissed as generic “big bankers bad” without deeper narrative.
