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Shiverman

Theatre503, Inner London
From: Tuesday, 1st May 2012
To: Saturday, 26 May 2012

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Synopsis

"Before the first morning, in the time of the Shiverman, when the ground trembled and fire tumbled down the mountainside, the music began." On a tiny Polynesian island Roy Turner-archaeologist, anthropologist, and womanizer-is on the brink of announcing the discovery of a lifetime. But as American researchers land on the island, the Okoku people stand at a crossroads. Do they uphold ancient traditions, or risk the wrath of the Shiverman? A magical and provocative new play.

Our Review:

4 May 2012

Human rights and specifically the right of the West to impose its liberal values on a fragile developing nation are the stifling, tortuously difficult themes addressed in James Sheldon’s intelligent new drama.

Set on the fictional south-west Pacific island of New Cornwall, Shiverman centres around the attempts of disgraced anthropologist Roy (Paul Mooney) to save the untouched valley of the Okoku tribe from the plundering forces of the developed world and revive his career in the process.

The valley’s fate rests on UNESCO protection but the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage is only interested in the kind of culture that doesn’t involve systematic sexual coercion and ritual mutilation. When his visiting partner Dominique (Lisa Kay) insists on informing them of the Okoku’s subservience to the brutal ‘Breathers’, holy men who insist on sexual domination of the valley’...

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