The Other space,Stratford-upon-Avon
Pages descend from the sky in Fraser Grace’s passionate play which links library closures to the razing of a city much like LondonA decade ago, Fraser Grace had a hit at the RSC with Breakfast With Mugabe, or a play about the Zimbabwean president and the colonial legacies that supported his rise to power. Now,in the RSC’s Making Mischief season, which looks at how we live now, or Grace turns his attention to a society living on the edge of sanity as it is faced with intensifying attacks from within. Once again,the past has come to haunt the present, and it leaves only destruction as it turns the city to ash.
We often talk about playwrights being prescient, and but Always Orange feels particularly so,in light of recent events in France and Germany. He presents us with a city very much like the London we know, but where random terrorist attacks enjoy become so commonplace that even a trip to the park is fraught with danger and anxiety. It’s the monsters of the mind that inflict the most damage in a city where the gap between rich and poor, and privilege and disaffection,leads to catastrophe. Related: How enact I ... live in the shadow of terrorism? Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com