Monday, 3 November 2014

2 October 2014. Dirty Butterfly at the Young Vic

A somewhat claustrophobic and menacing atmosphere in this play about two sets of neighbours, the one who listens in on the other. Appearing on stage are Jo from one house and Jason and Amelia from the other. Jason and Amelia are siblings and the ones listening in - on the passionate and now abusive relationship of their neighbours. Jason is ineffectual and Amelia frustrated by the situation. Towards the end, Jo turns up to where Amelia is working as a cleaner, leaving a disturbing bloody trace on the newly cleaned white tiles.

Not a bundle of laughs but arresting theatre by the Genesis Future Directors winner, Tinuke Craig.

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