REVIEW: The Effect, Lyttelton NT (2023)
Spellbinding Production from Jamie Lloyd with stellar all black acting talent "I'm Toby, I'm a psychiatrist, I'm afraid. My father was a heart surgeon and when I told him I…
Spellbinding Production from Jamie Lloyd with stellar all black acting talent "I'm Toby, I'm a psychiatrist, I'm afraid. My father was a heart surgeon and when I told him I…
The performances are all good but Delroy Lindo's inspirational, sympathetic old visionary and healer and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith's haunted Herald Loomis stand out as mesmerising. David Lan's intelligent production will make you think about the damage done by those years' of uprooting and slavery to the psyche of the African American.
The joyous thing about Kwame's dramatic writing is the minutely observed detail, a delicious comedic warmth and the way he tempers serious political points with gentle amusement. In my book, it is a much more effective way of delivering a message than hitting the audience over the head with doctrine.