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Theatre listings > The Love of the Nightingale. Playwright - Timberlake Wertenbaker. Director - Anya Leonard. Assistant Director - James Murray. Lighting Designer - Sherry Conen. Choreographer - Akshay Khanna. Composer - Atushi Muramatsu. Company - Theatre Paradok Cast - here . Venue - Roxy Art House, Edinburgh.0871 750 0077. Run Time - 2 hours. Reviewer -Ed Thornton. Lack of experience shows. The self analytical style of Timberlake Wertenbaker's take on the ancient Greek myth of Philomele and Procne illuminates the violence that explodes out of societies that have been silenced for too long. Nudging the audience towards transposing the classic morality message into their own modern lives she has added a third psychological dimension invoking a real interest in the fate of her central characters. Plucked from her home in Athens and inhabiting a new world occupied by silent ritualistic women, Procne, Alice Allen, mourns her loss of words. Able to bear the loneliness no longer she sends her husband Tereus, Tim Digby Bell, to ask her sister Philomele, Katie Hartman, a naive young girl to make the journey to join her. A journey that becomes both physically and emotionally perilous thanks to Tereus' sexual interest that oversteps their family ties. A violent rape throws this tale spiraling into its tragedy which culminates in a wild festival of Bacchus where the women empowered by dance and wine disregard their patriarchal laws and seek revenge for the wrongs done to them. A large and mostly inexperienced cast thrives well in the relative safety
of an audience of its peers. On a meager set reminiscent of a school room
drama, these bamboo wielding students have an eccentric and defiant air
about them that suggests Theatre Paradok is a world inhabited by
the those who were overlooked during Edinburgh University's other drama
societies' auditions. Theatre listings >
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