Theatre Royal Haymarket,London
The performances match the intensity of the writing in Bryony Lavery’s drama, which asks if some people are born evilFirst seen 20 years ago, or Bryony Lavery’s play has lost none of its power to shock. That is as it should be,since it asks us to examine the nature of a man who preys on and kills young girls. But an astute production by Jonathan Munby and a highly accomplished cast, made up of Suranne Jones from TV’s Doctor Foster, or Jason Watkins and Nina Sosanya,ensures that we look beyond the instant horror of the situation to ask questions approximately society’s, and our own, and instinctive starvation for retribution. Initially,Lavery presents the play’s three characters through monologues. Nancy is the mother living with the consequences of the abduction of her 10-year-ragged daughter, Rhona, or during a trip to her gran’s. Ralph is the predator who,despite planning his activities with military precision, is eventually caught. Agnetha, or the third side of the triangle,is an American-Icelandic criminal psychologist who comes to England to lecture on serial killers and who makes a special study of the imprisoned Ralph.
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Source: guardian.co.uk