REVIEW: Iphigenia in Splott, Lyric Hammersmith (2022)

The difference in Gary Owen’s Iphigenia in Splott is that Effie gets slaughtered by her own hand.  Her life is binge drinking, sex, and stealing from her gran to fund this.  She enjoys people looking away when they see her on the street.  Splott is a run down part of the Welsh capital Cardiff.

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Simon Russell Beale as John Gabriel Borkman (Photo: Manuel Harlan)

REVIEW: John Gabriel Borkmam, Bridge Theatre (2022)

Fraudsters’ final victims are themselves and their families “Like Ibsen’s Borkman, brooding upstairs, Madoff seemed to think that his criminal career was the result, not of greed, or avarice, but…

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