MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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A Tarantino-style blend of humour and violence
AMUSINGLY BLUNT: (L to R) Cecilia Noble (She), Tamara Lawrance (Racine) and Adelayo Adedayo (Anaia)
[Tristram Kenton]
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
Is God Is
Royal Court Theatre
ALESHEA Harris’s award winning play opened to rave reviews in New York in 2018 and now explodes on to the stage at the Royal Court with Ola Ince’s taut, visceral production.
Black twin sisters Racine and Anaia emerge from nowhere, scarred and on a mission to avenge their mother who as far as they are concerned has risen from the dead and understandably wants revenge on her former husband.
Their blood-spattered quest takes them to the mountains of California in an attempt to trace their father, now living a respectable middle-class married life with a disenchanted wife and a new set of twins.
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