I didn't manage to get to a machine with enough time to blog this earlier, so it's had to await our return home. However, this is another of the recommendations I'd give for the Edinburgh Fringe. It's a kind of Shakespeare reconstruction both in language and in the style of plot and presentation. It's an
able script and I loved the way that it was done by and all-female cast (I assume in a kind of gender mirror image to the original Shakespeare). On the downside -and this is but minor criticism- sometimes the metre of the verse became a bit too predicable and somehow oppressive, pantomimey: it needed a few more clever breaks and sharing of clauses across lines.
I was also quite surprised by how Buddhist the 'moral' at the end of the play was. Though the thing about desire was capable of being read Christianly, I don't think that it was intended so: it seemed to be echoing a contemporary concern with spirituality referencing Buddhist ideas. I may be wrong, but ...
Play's website
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