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Freya and Lou are seventeen and share everything - body spray, teachers’ green-biroed exasperations, their awkwardly navigated sexuality. Loos Loos spotlights a few tumultuous weeks of their friendship. Set entirely in the toilets of their ordinary school where they feel safe to be themselves, they attempt to bar the entry of darker outside reality.

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This unflinching portrayal of adolescence is intense and funny, rude and raw. There is a party and an assault. The girls struggle to bridge the gap between experience and understanding - how can you confront assault and revenge porn before you have the language to name it?

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The play exposes how, from a young age, women’s friendships are forced to metabolise sexual violence before they have the language, understanding or skillset to do so.
The Literary Team at the Bush Theatre following a playwriting open submission, Titilola Dawudu and Laetita Some, 2024
The bathroom setting ran true- every woman knows what it is like to bond in a bathroom ... It has a distinctly feminist tone which came through strongly - I particularly loved the menstruation references!
Beth Sedgewick, Community Programme Manager at the Oxford Playhouse, 2023
This play reads as full of so much recognisable tenderness and feeling… it reaches towards the stranger, more bizarre corners of adolescence.
The Literary Team at the Bush Theatre following a playwriting open submission, Titilola Dawudu and Laetita Some, 2024
I really liked the colloquial dialogue… there are some lovely exchanges between the two characters and their breakup and makeup felt very emotionally honest.
Beth Sedgewick, Community Programme Manager at the Oxford Playhouse, 2023
It's REALLY GOOD!!!! Totally gripped me. Loved the language, and thought the friendship was entirely credible.
Caroline Friend, Theatre Director
There is perhaps a glossier version of the story which follows a redemption arc after Lou’s assault but it felt honest, strong and interesting that the play doesn’t choose this shape.
The Literary Team at the Bush Theatre following a playwriting open submission, Titilola Dawudu and Laetita Some, 2024
Loved the last line - so dismissive, such a great non conclusion, no moralising, no fanfare,  just that weird banter between friends.
Caroline Friend, Theatre Director
I really appreciated its commitment to the messy, mistake riddled, heartfelt process of teenagers who want to be seen as adults, navigating the very uneasy waters of sexual violence.
The Literary Team at the Bush Theatre following a playwriting open submission, Titilola Dawudu and Laetita Some, 2024
The content is relevant for today’s society, as is their reactions and conflict about it.
Beth Sedgewick, Community Programme Manager at the Oxford Playhouse, 2023
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    To give you a taste of the vibe, here are the favourite artists of the Loos Loos Company:

    • CMAT
    • Jensen McRae
    • Florence + The Machine
    • Lizzy McAlpine
    • Suki Waterhouse
    • Rachel Chinouriri
    • Boygenius
    • Lorde
    • Soda Blonde
    • Maggie Rogers
    • Angie McMahon
    • Julia Jacklin
    • Wolf Alice
    • Orla Gartland
    • HAIM