Origin of the Species
From: Tuesday, 27th October 2009
To: Saturday, 21 November 2009
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Synopsis
Victoria isn't just any Neanderthal woman: she's good with fire, a mean dancer, and determined to show the modern world just where it’s gone wrong for the past four million years...
Our Review:
Theo Bosanquet - 3 November 2009
The premise of Bryony Lavery's Origin of the Species, revived to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's seminal work, is bizarre in the utmost.
An ageing Yorkshire academic recounts how, on a dig in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanganyika, she once uncovered a four million year-old woman. But instead of a collection of bones, she found a comely and vivacious young thing whom she smuggled back to her Yorkshire cottage, named 'Victoria', and taught to sing “On Ilkley Moor bar t'at”.
Aided by her protege's miraculous aptitude with language, the academic, Molly (played with suitable fireside manner by Marjorie Yates), is able to ascertain that women discovered fire, that our distant African ancestors were occasional cannibals and that, despite being “less of a guzzle guts and less of a chatterbox”, 'Victoria' and herself have a remarkable amount in common – not least a mutual dis...
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Bryony Lavery (Author)
Chantelle Staynings for Primavera (Producer)
Tom Littler (Director)
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