Rosemary Dunsmore
iPhoto caption: The cast of 'Suzannah.' Photo by Ann Baggley.
REVIEW: Jon Fosse’s Suzannah collapses temporal planes into an endless wait
Jon Fosse’s Suzannah fractures the life of Henrik Ibsen’s wife across three temporal planes, as fragments of biography, repetitions, memory, and grievance accumulate without ever coalescing into a stable portrait of Suzannah. The Here For Now Theatre production has closed, but this hypnotic, claustrophobic examination of a woman who struggles to imagine herself beyond her husband lingers.
Can audio dramas tell stories traditional theatre can’t?
Actor Qasim Khan and playwright Kevin Shea reflect on how their fiction podcast Feedback fits into a post-lockdown theatrical landscape.
iPhoto caption: Members of the company in Bakkhai. Photography by Cylla von Tiedemann.
Contemporary feminism is as complex, as diverse, as rich, and as paradoxical as are the humans who practise it.