Chips.
Shortform theatre play
A bored shop assistant confesses to her part in an online prank that led to a young woman's suicide when the girl's mother turns up demanding a refund.
Written and performed by Ashna Rabheru (Red Rose, Sex Education, Our Indian Summer)
Directed by Clare Sturges
Chippy Lane Productions
Theatre 503, Battersea, London
“Ashna Rabheru brings a fizzing vivacity [to this role]. The tale of the shop-lifted cider being passed off as an assumed pregnancy has an unlikeliness to it to suggest it is taken from the life. ‘Chips’ moves to a topic of seriousness, the malignity that a bad move on social media can attract.”