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total immediate collective imminent terrestrial salvation

Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, London ****
Runs: 1hr 10 mins without interval
TICKETS 020 7565 -5000
In person: Mon–Sat, 10am-start of perf or 6pm if no show
On-line: www.royalcourttheatre.co.uk

© Eoin Carey, Susan Vidler and Shyvonne Ahmmad, surrounded by audience members. A young girl awakes, and an older woman tries to engage in a narrative that neither can agree on...

© Eoin Carey, Susan Vidler and Shyvonne Ahmmad, surrounded by audience members. A young girl awakes, and an older woman tries to engage in a narrative that neither can agree on…

Review of perf seen Sept 13, 2019:

Total immediate collective imminent terrestrial salvation. 

Quite a handful of a title to get hold of. But unlike much printed on the front of the bottle these days, it is what it says. It is a total immediate collective imminent terrestrial salvation – of sorts. Continue reading

I See You (Ngiyakubona Ek Sien Jou Ndiyakubona)

Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, London (*****)

© Johan Persson, ayo Gbadamosi (Ben) and Desmond Dube (Buthelezi)

© Johan Persson, ayo Gbadamosi (Ben) and Desmond Dube (Buthelezi)

Another triumph for one of the Royal Court’s unsung heroes. Elyse Dodgson has been running the International arm of the Royal Court’s activities for nearly two decades, developing new writing voices. The project now has connections in 70 countries. Continue reading

Lela & Co

Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, London

© Helen Maybanks

© Helen Maybanks

****

The title is deeply ironic. Lela & Co stands for not only the injuries perpetrated on the central character, Lela, of Cordelia Lynn’s extraordinary imagination, but all those young girls whose abuse has hit the headlines in Bradford, High Wycombe and indeed, worldwide where women have been violated. The Co stands for an army of female abuse as well as a horrifically satirical comment on, you might say, the trafficking in female flesh, the business it becomes. Like Great Britain plc, so the sale of women. Lela & Co. A corporate company. A dozen times I thought of Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, Pakistan where the perception of women is as of goods and chattels or part and parcel of the trophy of war. Continue reading