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PATRICK MARMION reviews Apex Predator: Yes the title sounds promising, but John Donnelly's muddled new play is as bloodless as its victims

John Donnelly's muddled new play, ostensibly the tale of a young mother suffering from severe post-natal depression , turns into a one-woman, blood-sucking revenge mission against toxic masculinity

Awkwardly staged on Tom Piper’s design of a bland white kitchen marooned in a black void surrounded by scaffolding, Blanche McIntyre’s production fails to spook us with uncertainty about what’s real and what’s not. 'John Donnelly’s muddled new play, ostensibly the tale of a young mother suffering from severe post-natal depression , turns into a one-woman, blood-sucking revenge mission against toxic masculinity', writes Patrick Marmion (Press photos of Apex Predator) Played fast and furious, Ionesco’s absurdist 1959 totalitarian satire about the inhabitants of a French town turning into rhinos (symbolising the abolition of individual freedom and surrender to the herd instinct) might be a beast worth reviving.

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