'The Washing Machine of Destiny'

Luca Saunders is still a teenager, Philip Robinson is getting on a bit. Both are on the autistic spectrum. The Washing Machine Of Destiny theatre show is a conglomeration of their bonkers ideas, perhaps like nothing you will have seen before. An eclectic mixture of music and characters and story and conversation and yet more music in a show that they have created together.

Luca had the idea he wanted to make a play that could communicate some of the weird and wonderful and occasionally worrying things that zip through his neurodivergent brain at a hundred miles an hour, and Philip was well up for that, adding in his own zippy things too. Pippa Marriott came in to slow things down a little and do some directing. All three live in Devon.

Its true to say young Luca is now an emerging actor and is certainly an experienced ‘autie’. Old Philip is a very experienced actor and, it would also be true to say, is now an emerging ‘autie’. Their ten year friendship is a match made in heaven, or at least in the hot temperature tumbling crazy spin cycle of their shared experiences.

This show lasts 80 minutes, no interval. Come for a spin.   

The theatre company:

Living Room Theatre often tour shows into non-theatre settings: living rooms and kitchens, department stores and shops, gardens and caves. We like performing shows that are funny and powerful, that have something important to say: Every Brilliant Thing centred on suicide and enlisted the audience to help tell the story; All Is Mended told real-life stories from Devon’s Care Homes within a repurposed Midsummer Night’s Dream; the Ukrainian play Bad Roads shocked and moved us all. As well as performing all over Devon, the Southwest and nationwide, we have worked from Ireland to Iraq, from Lisbon to Las Vegas, and we are looking forward to coming to your neck of the woods.