Miracle
From: Tuesday, 5th January 2010
To: Sunday, 24 January 2010
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Synopsis
Six characters in search of a venue... A derelict church... A circus... A tragic secret... Who is the stranger, dressed in black..? Why is there a dead girl in the trunk...? Six characters in search of redemption... Only a MIRACLE can save them.
Our Review:
11 January 2010
As a playwright whose CV boasts three works inspired by Chekhov, Reza De Wet ought to have some talent for depicting the ebb and flow of human relationships. On the evidence of this inept new play, she does not.
The premise is intriguing enough: during the Great Depression a tired theatre company trudges across an unspecified western country. Five bedraggled actors, under the blustering leadership of Dante Du Pré (Tim Woodward in fruitiest form), roam from town to town and inflict their ramshackle staging of the 15th-century morality play Everyman on the locals. Life imitates art, though, when the mysterious Anna (Lynne Miller) enters their world bringing death in her wake.
A supernatural thriller? Maybe, but De Wet is ambiguous on the matter. She is decisive, though, in her unerring ear for banality. The dialogue (translated from the Afrikaans by the author and Stephen Stead) is knitted together with cliché, and plausible characterisati...
Creative
Reza de Wet (Author)
Ruby in the Dust (Company)
Linnie Reedman (Director)
Bryony Rumble (Design)
Edmund Sutton (Lighting)
Joe Evans (Music)
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