Speechless
From: Tuesday, 22nd November 2011
To: Saturday, 26 November 2011
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Synopsis
The story of identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons. Refusing to speak to adults, the twins communicate in their own private language, their only relationship being an intense and turbulent bond with each other. Speechless is a powerful portrayal of the twins secret world and their struggle to find a voice against all odds.
Our Review:
23 November 2011
Shared Experience’s Speechless tells the dark and intriguing real life tale of June and Jennifer Gibbons, identical twins who refuse to speak to anyone but each other.
Born to parents recently settled in 1960’s Britain from the Caribbean, June and Jennifer are brought up on an RAF base (their father, unseen in the piece, is a pilot) mainly by their church-going mother. Attending a school where they are the only non-white children, the twins navigate their adolescence without any real sense of place, refusing to talk or make eye contact with everyone but each other. As Jennifer and June become increasingly isolated from the world, their dynamic of co-dependency becomes suffocating, dangerous and ultimately destructive.
Whilst Natasha Gordon as Jennifer and Demi Oyediran as June give intense and brooding performances, their playful energy in the childhood bedroom scenes shows vulnerability and allows the a...
Creative
Linda Brogan (Author)
Polly Teale (Based on The Silent Twins by Marjorie Wallace) (Author)
Shared Experience (Producer)
Sherman Cymru (Producer)
Polly Teale (Director)
Naomi Dawson (Design)
Liz Ranken (movement) (Director)
Peter Salem (Sound)
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