Silence
From: Friday, 18th June 2010
To: Saturday, 6 November 2010
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Synopsis
Silence is a provocative comedy set in late Dark Ages England. The Vikings rule the North and the Saxons the South of the country under the reign of King Ethelred. At the King's bidding Ymma, a powerful French princess, is inadvertently married to another woman. Here begins a millennial road-trip and wildly original love story that remains relevant to our own world a thousand years later.
Our Review:
24 June 2010
Moira Buffini’s Silence, set in ‘Dark Ages England’ beset by Viking raids some fifty years prior to the Norman conquest, is a thoughtful and entertaining play about troubled times. The devout are bothered by what’s going on beneath their cassocks; rulers vacillate between neurotic incapacity and homicidal mania; bodyguards turn on their charges; and women have little chance of survival on their own.
The play follows the fortune of Ymma, daughter of a saint. Luckily, Ymma’s prospective husband, the ‘Lord’ Silence, turns out to be a girl, and the two make a pact to keep this from the world and keep each other safe. Unluckily, Ymma inspires admiration which turns into obsession in king Ethelred, and later in Eadric, the man he details to deliver her safely to the north.
For Buffini, it is men who put the ‘Dark’ into ‘Dark Ages’, as Ethelred ends up a psychopathi...
Creative
Moira Buffini (Author)
Theatre by the Lake (Producer)
Stefan Escreet (Director)
Elizabeth Wright (Design)
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