Five Kinds of Silence
From: Tuesday, 29th January 2013
To: Sunday, 17 February 2013
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Synopsis
Five Kinds of Silence is a dark journey into a family's secluded world of secrets, fantasies and fears. A house and its occupants entirely sealed off from the outside world; three women crippled by a heart-breaking secret; a man destroyed by possession, desire and pain. Secrets of the past hound the present as the future unfolds...
Our Review:
1 February 2013
How do you explain persistent sexual abuse and physical violence? How do you explain your own conspiracy of silence over many years? How do you live with the continuing presence of the perpetrator, now dead, and whom you have shot, twice, to make sure he doesn’t get up again? And how do you begin to recover from such experiences? These are the questions posed in Shelagh Stephenson’s harrowing psycho-drama.
Since the play was first performed on radio in 1996, and on stage in 2000, sexual abuse has become a much more widespread dramatic subject, and inevitably it doesn’t have the same shock value. But Five Kinds of Silence (or Kind of Silence, as the programme appears to have it) is still a very potent analysis of a family driven to murder by years of abuse at the hands of a sadistic bully of a husband and father, Billy, played with terrifying ferocity by Zach Lee.
Its roots in radio are very apparent in its short, interconnecting scenes...
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Shelagh Stephenson (Author)
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