Lot and His God
From: Saturday, 3rd November 2012
To: Saturday, 24 November 2012
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Synopsis
In Lot and His God an angel meets Lot and his wife in a filthy cafe where he attempts to convince them to leave the city of Sodom prior to its imminent destruction. What follows is the moral decay of an angel and the erotic epiphany of an adored wife.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 9 November 2012
In the Bible, Lot’s wife takes a last look back at Sodom and is turned into a pillar of salt. In Howard Barker's short sharp minor shocker of a play - receiving a UK premiere in a confident, deluxe-looking production by Robyn Winfield-Smith - she dallies with a dissolute chap called Drogheda and changes her shoes.
The flight from the city seems deliberately ambiguous, as there is no hint of destruction beyond the chaos that is already enveloping the café where the action takes place and where the chief tragic victim is a tremulous blind and dumb waiter who stays behind.
In a play text postscript, Barker talks about ancient narratives rising like ghosts to mock our moral platitudes, and there’s something stubbornly heroic about the way he continues to re-cast Biblical and mythical stories in a modern, but also timeless, context.
In this instance, though, it’s hard to extrapolate any pressing new meaning to the story other than t...
Creative
Howard Barker (Author)
Robyn Winfield-Smith (Director)
Fotini Dimou (Design)
Peter Mumford (Lighting)
Gregory Clarke (Sound)
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