Sunny Side Up
“Remember everything you’re about to see happened to me. Not David Alade, let’s call him Lil D” This opening line of Sunny Side Up reverberates in the audience’s mind throughout this cleverly crafted 70-minute play, as it provides a lens through which all the trials and tribulations of writer and performer David Alade’s should be viewed. This melodic refrain is repeated at various pivotal moments during the play, which acts as a stark reminder that this is not a piece of fiction but rather a true life story dripping in honest and raw reality. Against the harsh backdrop of a series of metallic fences and gates, we meet a proud Peckham local and wide-eyed primary school aged Lil D, he’s spunky, eager to impress and bashful at the thought of how to navigate plucking up the courage to talk to his classroom crush. In his pea green uniform our protagonist attempts to woo his first love by asking to borrow her pencil sharpener, this romantic gesture culminates in him proudly s...