Author: Lindsay Oldham

To dimmed lighting and an intimidating tenor of chanting, the five cast members trickle onstage and kneel before us, arms raised, frozen.  A gun shoots.  They all collapse. This is the welcome we receive to their claustrophobic underground production, which, played out beneath the arched ceiling of the Frewin Undercroft, makes me feel slightly as […]

The action starts and we are called to attention by Stendhal, played by Jordan Waller, who is sitting at the table in front of the audience as though we are in a tutorial with him. Then he starts talking to us in a disconcertingly intimate manner: he returns our stares, comes up close, reasons with […]