Junta Sekimori
November 2009
Malice oozes seductively
This is a play with vintage, and what it means to us now is something very different from what it would have meant to its contemporary audiences. Thankfully, director Lucy Bailey knows this and has rather spectacularly played up the kitsch in this production by West Yorkshire Playhouse.
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‘Journalism dropped the ball’
The overall feel of the production is far from dour or comfortable. It’s a punchy 75 minutes, paced like a rolling news channel during a crisis, with each speech urgently taking over from the last in a raucous fiesta of opinions. The actors drive the play like jet engines, pumping the polemic with fiery vigour.
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