It Felt Empty When the Heart Went at First but it is Alright Now
From: Wednesday, 7th October 2009
To: Saturday, 31 October 2009
Our Review: 
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Synopsis
A luminous journey exploring the life of Dijana Polancec: professional romantic, eternal optimist and accidental prostitute.
Our Review:
26 October 2009
All theatre, to a greater or lesser extent, requires the audience to take a leap of imagination into the world it creates. At the Arcola, with its current production of It Felt Empty, this is being achieved to extraordinary effect.
This is due in part to the synergy between Lucy Kirkwood’s text and the remarkable performance by Hara Yannas as Dijana, the young immigrant woman whose story this is. Locked in the room where she works as a prostitute, talking to her absent child, she still maintains an optimism and humour. Sentimentality and practicality jostle with each other as she cries over a dead bird, picks 21 used condoms out of the bin and boasts that she has “a head for numbers”, recording each transaction in a notebook. She appears to have no illusions, knowing exactly how much she is worth: “1000 Euros because that is what Babac pay for me”.
Today is a special day: she believes that her next clien...
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Lucy Kirkwood (Author)
Clean Break (in association with Arcola Theatre) (Company)
Lucy Morrison (Director)
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