Post by Dave B on Jan 25, 2020 23:53:43 GMT
We grabbed matinee tickets for today after the Guardian said this in their "What to see this week in the UK" on 17/01
Director Ellen McDougall creates highly thoughtful and striking shows. Her latest is an adaptation of Valeria Luiselli’s debut novel, a slippery story set in Mexico where a marriage is falling apart. As a mother and wife recalls her previous life in New York, memories and figures from the past intermingle with the present. The cast includes Anoushka Lucas, who was a spellbinding Mary Magdalene in a recent production of Jesus Christ Superstar.
Fab cast, really fab cast.
There are three narratives and they criss-cross, wave at each other through windows and sometimes merge together. The play is hard to follow, almost certainly it's designed to be hard to follow. It is captivating though and Jimena Larraguivel does a great job keeping the audience with her (...mostly with her!) and to be honest, I think her performance was worth price of admission alone. The rest of the cast are as good.
{Spoiler - click to view}The climax does get a bit melodramatic and the stories get a little lost in each other but I think it just manages to hang together. We both left very curious about the original book it was based on.
Runs till 08/02.