Ding Dong The Wicked
From: Monday, 1st October 2012
To: Saturday, 13 October 2012
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Synopsis
"There's nothing I inherited except my father's hair and his lefthandedness. Everything I got I earned." A child is shut in her room, a dog is dead in the road, someone is kissing her brother in law. A family locked in hatred is sending a son to war. And meanwhile in another country...
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 4 October 2012
Playing on certain days before and after her own brilliant Love and Information, Caryl Churchill's 20-minute drama is not an add-on or a post-script; it's a tense, troubled game of two halves, in separate countries, with identical dialogue.
The characters change, but are played by the same cast on the same white set, with a national flag. A doorbell rings, the door opens, a man is shot, body dumped in a black bin liner. Same ring, drunken woman enters her own home.
“Both households are "celebrating" a soldier going to war. A woman is locked inside. The trees are being destroyed. Our way of life is threatened. First a man, then a woman, worked for everything they have. A marriage is breaking up. An affair is underway. The vodka flows.
Dominic Cooke's production is a nationalist epic in shorthand”
Dominic Cooke's production is a nationalist epic i...
Creative
Caryl Churchill (Author)
Coutts (Corporate Sponsor)
Royal Court (Producer)
Dominic Cooke (Director)
Jack Williams (Lighting)
Alexander Caplen (Sound)
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