MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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Meet Me at Dawn, Arcola Theatre London
Moving meditation on love and loss from Zinnie Harris
Tragedy in miniature: Meet Me at Dawn
[Lidia Chrisafulli]
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
ARTISTS have been inspired by the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice since ancient Greece and Zinnie Harris has joined their ranks with a two-hander that focuses on the moment Orpheus looks back and realises the full extent of his loss.
Harris’s simple, stylish and compressed version follows two women stranded on a surreal sandbank after a boating accident. The couple approach their new, strange reality with intriguingly contrasting emotions.
Marianne Oldham’s Robyn acts as a fearful narrator and it soon becomes apparent that the reflective, echoing world where they are marooned is her troubled mindscape attempting to make sense of the present.
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