GRACE HATCHELL REPORTING FOR DUTY… WITH A 00S-SOAKED FRIENDSHIP TALE THAT MIGHT JUST MAKE YOU CRY INTO YOUR WKD BLUE
Right then, pop your hair in a zigzag parting, dig out the Von Dutch cap, and brace yourself — because Disco 2000 is taking us back to the glory days of Don’t Tell the Bride, MSN Messenger and tennis doubles with your best mate who basically was your soulmate.
Amelia and Bonnie were tighter than low-rise jeans in 2004. Childhood partners-in-crime. The kind of girls who’d finish each other’s Chicken Selects at McDonald’s and choreograph full routines to Sugababes tracks. But life, as it does, got in the way.
Fast forward 15 years: Bonnie’s living the grown-up dream — flat, boyfriend, probably owns more than one kind of olive oil — but she’s feeling teeny tiny in a city that doesn’t hug you back. And then… a scroll, a like, a bold little Instagram message. Suddenly she’s face-to-face with Amelia again, over dinner — and boom! We’re jumping through time quicker than a LimeWire download on dial-up.
Disco 2000 isn’t just a trip down memory lane — it’s a gut-punch of emotion with a side of Haribo Tangfastics. Written by Rosa Honey Gatley and brought to you by the whip-smart Hedge Maze Theatre, this bold little two-hander is all about those people you grew up with… and whether you really ever grow apart.
There’s a rawness to this piece — a non-linear structure that zips between the giddy highs of teenage sleepovers and the uncomfortable silences of adulthood. It’s funny, it’s fierce, and it aches in the way only long-lost friendships can.
Rosa’s no stranger to the Fringe — she’s taken a few bangers up the M6 before, and this one’s already got proper pedigree, making the top 40 in the Papatango New Writing Prize and nabbing a debut at the Royal Exchange last year (alright, show-off).
Hedge Maze Theatre — those legends from Manchester — are keeping it real with honest, female-led storytelling. They’re all about authentic characters and raw emotion, and this show is no exception. If you’ve ever had a friend you thought would be in your life forever, and then one day you don’t even know their postcode… Disco 2000 will find you.
Warning: may cause you to text someone you haven’t spoken to since Year 11 and spiral into a nostalgic puddle.
https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/disco-2000
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