The River
From: Thursday, 18th October 2012
To: Saturday, 17 November 2012
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Synopsis
"At dawn I went back to the river, and I took off my clothes and dived in the freezing water. I searched and searched but it was gone. But when I surfaced, I was holding something. Something else." A remote cabin on the cliffs, a man and a woman, and a moonless night.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 27 October 2012
A man and a woman in a fishing shack. Another woman, impervious to the first, on another time plane. A sea trout to be salted and cooked with vegetables. A murder to ponder, a mystery in the mists of time. Jez Butterworth's new play does not lend itself easily to analysis, or indeed summary. But it's as taut as a wire and as tense as a thriller.
It would be pointless to declare the piece less good, epic, or entertaining than Jerusalem; the troubled waters have once more closed over the forest clearing, as in his earlier plays, and Butterworth and his redoubtable interpretative trio of director Ian Rickson, designer Ultz and composer Stephen Warbeck have once again concocted an outdoor poetic riddle with indoor emotions.
The mood is heavy with foreboding, but the prime purpose here is the grappling to the floor of the mystical pleasures and significance of fly fishing. The play’s title is shared with a Ted Hughes collection, an...
Creative
Jez Butterworth (Author)
Coutts (Corporate Sponsor)
Royal Court Theatre (Producer)
Ian Rickson (Director)
Ultz (Design)
Charles Balfour (Lighting)
Ian Dickinson (Autograph) (Sound)
Stephen Warbeck (Music)
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