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'Delicates and Smoke' by Rebecca Russell
***** FIVE STARS *****
Ordinary people can be so twisted behind closed doors. Moira struggles to bring her children up on her own, with continuous worries about their health, especially when Leo contracts a mystery illness, strangely coinciding with Moira acquiring a dead dog's medicines. Gregory is clean-living fireman, insistent on fire safety, with a hideous temper; strange how his enemies keep finding their homes on fire, and Gregory's fire engine is just too late. Dominated by dark obsessions, these two monologues are delivered with eerie normality; the strength of the stories lies in the characters' regular appearance to the casual observer, giving an immense power to the show that exists deep in our souls but is never openly expressed.
Pleasance, 5-22 Aug, 1:35pm (2:55pm), prices vary, fpp 141 tw rating 5/5 [ep] |
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