![]() “If I die here, I was murdered by daytime television”, announces one of the characters. Slinger does a brilliant job of leaving us wondering whether she is right.Īmidst all the misery, it’s easy to forget that Kane was also genuinely funny. ![]() “You’ve fallen in love with someone who doesn’t exist,” writes Kane. Wendy Kweh and Alfred Enoch both bring a beautiful stillness to their roles, while Jonathan Slinger treads an eerily disconcerting fine line between achingly sweet lover and a coercive, controlling perpetrator. Craig embraces all of Kane’s written ambiguity, giving us a boldly unapologetic cast who rail and seduce and seethe by turns.Įrin Doherty is a spikily unassuming protagonist: taut with frustration, brimming with appalling secrets, and full of fury that life hasn’t dealt her a different hand, she seeks a peace that possibly doesn’t exist. This is a challenging script to produce as the audience is given glimpses of backstory that can be woven, into a narrative or not, as they choose. ![]() Ravi Deepres‘ filming adds a whole other dimension to the piece for the online audience, while Anna Clock‘s sound design builds the sense of foreboding with the cello providing melancholy punctuation. Joshua Pharo‘s lighting is occasionally a modicum too bright for the film cameras but is likely just the ticket if you’re sat in the audience. The set is starkly austere and the revolving stage amplifies the momentum. Director Tinuke Craig has embraced the demands of both the script and covid-related safety concerns and serves up a production that’s majestically relentless.ĭesigner Alex Lowde does a cracking job of conveying the grinding hamster wheel of a life ringing with loss. At once a love letter to a departed partner, a lament for a missing mother, and a howl of frustration from a disordered mind, it’s as much poetry as prose and demands a striking presentation. Fortunately, the show is also being live streamed from Chichester Festival Theatre, meaning the live shows will continue until Saturday to an audience outside the building, rather than in it.Ĭrave is a play featuring four actors who assume various roles over the course of the 50-minute piece. ![]() Though Sarah Kane’s Crave opened as a preview on Saturday and organised its official opening and press night on Monday, as a result of further changes to restrictions in England it can only play to a live audience until Wednesday. ![]() Live theatre isn’t so easy to come by these days. ![]()
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