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Brilliance at the double from Ballet Black
Excellence in action: The Suit
[Bill Cooper]
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
The Suit + A Dream Within a Midsummer Night's Dream
Theatre Royal Stratford East/Touring
CATHY MARSTON’S inventive choreography informs the assured storytelling of Can Themba’s South African story The Suit. The first of Ballet Black’s excellent double bill, it's set to music by the Kronos Quartet.
No sooner has Philemon gone to work than his wife Matilda is joined in bed by her lover Simon. But Philemon catches them in the throes of love-making on returning for his briefcase and Simon escapes virtually naked, leaving his suit behind.
Philemon takes revenge by insisting that Matilda treat Simon’s suit as their honoured guest at all times and, with her repeated entreaties for forgiveness cruelly refused, Matilda is doomed to relentless humiliation by the suit’s constant presence in their domestic and social lives.
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