...some trace of her

Synopsis

A woman lies dead on a bed in her wedding dress, a silver knife through her heart. The two men who loved her lie beside her.

Our Review:

31 July 2008

There is a really fascinating account in the programme for ...some trace of her in the Cottesloe of the working method and rehearsal process adopted by director Katie Mitchell and her colleagues on this theatre-and-film version of Dostoevsky’s great novel The Idiot.

I say “adopted” because there is an inescapable air of “setting out to do something experimental” in this method that suited Waves, her 2006 production of Virginia Woolf’s The Waves much better. Woolf’s dream-like fragments of remembered experience and inner thoughts were ideally conveyed in a melange of sound, filmed episodes and brief re-enactments that amounted to a theatrical totality.

One isn’t necessarily looking for narrative consistency in this use of detailed close-up, conflicting yet complimentary imagery of screen...

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fred - 18 October 2008:

Fortunately, theatre is subjective and, in my view, some trace of her is an oustanding piece of work. Katie Mitchell and her remarkable team produce haunting and memorable images which beautifully convey aspects of The Idiot. Ben Whishaw and Hattie Morahan are quite stunning. ...

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