Shoreditch Madonna

Synopsis

A derelict space. Three urban cowboys. Two jaded bohemians. One woman, alone, in pain. Their lives collide and in an attempt to connect with each other, their conflicts unfold. A modern tale of love and loss set against the underground art world of London's East End.

Our Review:

13 July 2005

There's a line that jumps out of Rebecca Lenkiewicz's Shoreditch Madonna that just shakes one to the core. Nick (Adam Croasdell), a hanger-on in an arty dive in Hackney, has just been having a terrible angst-ridden fight with a suicidal young woman in a black evening dress and fur coat whom he has fallen in love with. `I love you', he declares to the fragile Christina (a shimmering Alexandra Moen). `Three days ago you didn't know I existed', she counters. To which Nick replies, `Three days ago some people were alive and now they're dead'.

That strange prescience with our own recent London trauma isn't the only thing that makes Lenkiewicz's new play so startling or gives it such a sense of cultural immediacy. Sean Mathias' production, by turns tender and techno-throbbing, also has something to do with it. But Lenkiewicz, who wrote the award-winning The Night Season, has caught current speech and ways of being that ring absolute...

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80.177.231.164) - 29 July 2005:

Exceptionally disappointing. The writer has produced some very good plays but this is well below her usual standard. None of the characters were remotely credible. The acting and the production were very unimpressive. This is not what we have come to expect of the Soho Theatre....

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