I’ve just come back from watching a preview of Dark River, Clio Barnard’s new film, and hearing Clio speak about the making of the film and it’s pretty much all I can think about. I love the look of this film. The score is sparse with the sounds of the landscape making up a great… Continue reading Dark River
Category: Story
Meet me at dawn
My reading for this weekend was the brilliant and utterly heartbreaking, Meet Me at Dawn by Zinnie Harris. This play reminded me how much I can learn about dialogue from playwrights, it is a maze of half-sentences, and confusion that clears to the realisation that one of the characters has died and the other is… Continue reading Meet me at dawn
Rita, Sue and Bob Too
In November of last year I saw Andrea Dunbar’s Shirley performed at Halifax’s Square Chapel so when a tour of Rita, Sue and Bob Too was announced, following a run at the Royal Court, I knew I had to see it. The play is a hilarious story, but it’s tragic too. The potential of Rita,… Continue reading Rita, Sue and Bob Too
Red by Somalia Seaton
Oh my god, I loved this play. An exploration of grief and friendship, I love the replaying of scenes, looking for the missed clues, dropped stitches, trying to make sense of things. It’s a motif I also found powerful in Rabih Alameddine’s I, The Divine where the book is entirely told in first chapters, as… Continue reading Red by Somalia Seaton
Hanna by Sam Potter
What’s a play? This short play by Sam Potter is a one-woman performance of the story of a child, accidentally sent home from the hospital with the wrong family as an infant, and the chaos that ensues when the mistake is discovered. Sadly, I didn’t to see this performed, but the story is so compelling,… Continue reading Hanna by Sam Potter
Mosquitoes
When I found out about Mosquitoes it was fully booked, but the gradual release of a few tickets and my willingness to head down to London for a Saturday matinee, meant I was lucky enough to see it. I think Mosquitoes is one of the most visually impressive plays I have ever seen, played in… Continue reading Mosquitoes