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ECHO - Every Cold-Hearted Oxygen review: A trip to old Iran with a fresh actor each night and an unseen script, writes GEORGINA BROWN
On press night, it was a brave Adrian Lester who became a participant in this potent, penetrating piece by Iranian theatre-maker Nassim Soleimanpour.
Genevieve is soon swayed by local bad boy Dominique (Joaquin Pedro Valdes) and they run away together, jeopardising the village's recently restored bread supply, as Amiable sinks into despair and stops baking. Miss Albertson, reprising the role she created Off Broadway, is terrific, full of manic energy and menace; while Mr Hayward brings light and shade to the confused Maguire, never entirely convinced he isn't being punked for a television show. Pamela Nomvete's union leader (and gambling addict) Faye, having done 29 years, is a mother figure to the younger ones, and quite literally a second-mom to Reggie (Tobi Bamtefa), son of her dead best friend.
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