Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat
From: Tuesday, 30th March 2010
To: Saturday, 24 April 2010
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Synopsis
Drawing from his brilliant Edinburgh Festival series Ravenhill for Breakfast, Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat (part one) is a collage of scenes exploring the personal and political effect of war on modern life.
Our Review:
9 April 2010
If you’re feeling a bit low avoid this like the plague, because it’s one rusty razorblade of a double-bill. It’ll flay your spirits and strip away your joy.
Director Dan Ayling recaptures the supercharged intensity he brought to Howard Brenton’s Christie in Love last year as he couples three pieces from Mark Ravenhill’s 16-play war sequence with the post-7/7 trilogy Eschara by Phillip Whiteman, a talented young polymath who is also one of the evening’s four performers.
Ravenhill is first up, and we are plunged unceremoniously into the harrowing darkness of Crime and Punishment, a tale set in an occupied Middle-Eastern country that depicts one soldier’s broken-minded cruelty towards a defenceless widow. This is followed by a deceptively bright start to the blackly comic Paradise Lost, where the versatile actress Daphne Kouma sheds her hijab from the previous play and becomes a free-spirited Liver las...
Creative
Mark Ravenhill (Author)
Cheekish Productions (Producer)
Oliver Wood (Producer)
Dan Ayling (Director)
Rhiannon Newman Brown (Design)
Sally Ferguson (Lighting)
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