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From: Thursday, 5th August 2010
To: Tuesday, 31 August 2010
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Synopsis
Fifteen years ago, Alice was an interrogator in Guantanamo Bay. The pills she took at the time mean she can't remember what she did. Fifteen years ago, Bashir was a detainee there. One day, he visits her.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 12 August 2010
A powerful new drama set back home in America in the aftermath of Guantanamo Bay is an unlikely discovery among the coloured lights and hubbub of the Underbelly pleasure dome in Bristo Square.
Chinese/American playwright Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig won the Yale Drama Series award for this, her first play; it is presented in a white Perspex box with two dozen punters crammed onto fold-up picnic stools round the periphery.
Steven Atkinson’s strongly cast production flashes back to the brutalising encounter between Penny Layden’s American soldier, Alice, and Antony Bunsee’s abused, now dying, Muslim detainee.
The incident flares up like a time bomb in Alice’s home town flower shop, threatening the fragile, asthmatic condition of her daughter, and unsettling her ex-junkie husband.
A legacy of institutionalised political violence has some unexpected sexual twists, the orgasm of...
Creative
Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig (Author)
HighTide (Producer)
Escalator East to Edinburgh (Producer)
Steven Atkinson (Director)
takis (Design)
Matt Prentice (Lighting)
Tom Mills (Music)
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