Read more about the article REVIEW: Dixon and Daughters, Dorfman NT (2023)
DIXON AND DAUGHTERS by Deborah Bruce ; Production ; Cast ; Brid Brennan as Mary ; Alison Fitzjohn as Briana ; Yazmin Kayani as Ella ; Andrea Lowe as Julie ; Posy Sterling as Leigh ; Directed by Roisin McBrinn ; Set and Costume Designer: Kat Heath ; Lighting Designer: Paule Constable ; Sound Designer: Sinead Diskin ; Movement Director: Sarita Piotrowski ; Fight Director: Bethan Clark ; Dialect Coach: Michaela Kennen ; Staff Director: Monae Robinson ; Casting by Alastair Coomer CDG & Bryony Jarvis-Taylor ; Company Voice Work: Shereen Ibrahim ; Wellbeing Practitioner: Samantha Llewellyn ; Associate Lighting: Mildred Moyo ; A co-production with Clean Break and National Theatre ; London, UK ; 15 April 2023 ; Credit and copyright: Helen Murray www.helenmurrayphotos.com

REVIEW: Dixon and Daughters, Dorfman NT (2023)

What Deborah Bruce’s play at the National Theatre does well is to explore the fall out from situations of child abuse.  The damage to the children is compounded by not being believed and those closest to them, who should protect them,  allying with their abuser.

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Cast in Rockets and Blue Lights (Photo: Brinkoff-Mogenburg)

REVIEW: Rockets and Blue Lights, Dorfman National Theatre (2021)

The play opens at an exhibition where one of the visitors is an actor, Lou (Kiza Deen) who is working on a film, The Ghost Ship,  about the painter Joseph Turner and his painting where she plays an African woman Olu. 

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