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Mnemonic review: A magical, mercurial game-changer returns 25 years on, writes PATRICK MARMION
PATRICK MARMION: There are are few shows more difficult to describe, and even fewer that have left a deeper impression on me, than Complicité Theatre Company's magical production.
A soundtrack relays the buzz of the city and the hum of nature, or continues actors’ voices after they’ve finished speaking — giving an uncanny sense of displacement in time and space. Understandably still carrying a script, Mitchell navigates her character’s moral ambivalences craftily, as the story enters a political minefield, asking when isolated assaults can be said to constitute a ‘rape culture’. Although these dilemmas need to be screwed down more firmly in Feaver’s character-driven script, the play has some of the tragic potential of escalating stakes in Greek drama, as the witty and passionate Jo proves fatally open-minded.
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