PRESS & REVIEWS

‘Ira Brand is a riveting performer, at once both thought provoking and playful, irresistibly engaging even nine fights later. She challenges the audience to consider their relationship with what is happening onstage… Ways To Submit is a fantastic and constantly surprising piece of theatre that discusses power on multiple levels…’
Ways To Submit, The Spy In The Stalls, 4 Stars, full review here

‘They teach you in Physics that energy neither originates nor disappears but rather transfers and converts into different forms; so power is always present in relationships, given and taken, passed from person to person. We’re watching an experiment that proves that.’
Ways To Submit, Exeunt Magazine, full review here

Ways To Submit, Theaterkrant review (in Dutch) here

‘…a writer and performer of rare precision… language is wielded like a scalpel, words are polished into poetry, and the smallest gestures speak volumes.’
Break Yourself, The Stage, full review here

‘Whoever is broken here, be it Ira, Ollie, Bruce, the dominant male, the questing female, or the audience’s expectations, it’s been a magnificent rupture.’
Break Yourself, Total Theatre, full review here

‘…a superb performance, as precise as it is honest…’
Break Yourself, What’s On Stage, Edinburgh Festival Top Ten Picks 2016

‘…made memorable by some exquisite writing and Brand’s subtle, haunting performance.’
Break Yourself, Exeunt’s Best Regional Theatre 2016

AUDIENCE RESPONSES

‘RUNNER is not meant to serve our standards. Nor is it there to ravish us. It is a genuine testimony of one’s exhaustion and the accompanying confusion. It’s the need to feel drained and depleted, to approach and touch the core of fatigue, as well as to confront the solitude of the painful days that follow… RUNNER has very little text, and it’s subtle. Its visuals are just as subtle. Yet, there was such fullness in the unspoken, such familiarity and resonance in the unseen.’
Read the full blog about the experience of RUNNER by Alexandra Drakoulaki here

‘Holy nora @irabrand @YardTheatre. Utterly and unexpectedly mesmeric. May be my favourite show of the year.’
Ways To Submit, audience member on twitter

‘@irabrand’s #waystosubmit is a tricky, visceral, pulsing triumph. Moving, vulnerable, sexy, left me raging at the things I can’t change & inspired to explore my own power.’
Ways To Submit, audience member on twitter

‘A personal and endorsing shout from the rooftops for @irabrand’s Ways To Submit @YardTheatre. A simple premise and a clear performer offered space for me as an audience to consider my violence, my body and equity in dominance and submission. YES YES YES.’
Ways To Submit, audience member on twitter