Tag: simon stephens
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Daily Review – Dead Centre / Sea Wall (Review) ★★★★
Link to ArticleBoth actors seemed to me to be faultless. As Stephens’s writing requires, Prendergast is more nakedly emotional, yet never self-indulgent. It is the kind of acting where the technique is invisible and absolutely at the service of the characters it summons up. Afterwards it occurs to you the risk that has been taken: it is…
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The Sydney Morning Herald – Dead Centre / Sea Wall (Review) ★★★★
Link to Article Alex (Ben Prendergast), softly spoken and, like his estranged wife, stoic to a fault, he nonetheless churns with barely concealed rage and anguish. It’s a brilliantly sustained piece of domestic horror.