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P HOGAN COYLE
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Children's Act
Children's Act
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You enter the Theatre Upstairs through a decaying passageway, pass a bedbound elder and are confronted by a sleazy apartment surrounded by mountainous debris. The flat's chief occupant is the 19-year-old Dima who makes a living flogging grave-markers from the adjacent cemetery. On the eve of joining the Chechnya-bound army, Dima throws an impromptu party for his Mafia contact, a pair of female cousins and a downstairs druggie that reveals the depths of their youthful desperation. We're the living dead," says Dima, looking out over the looted cemetery. Of the party guests, the 20-year-old Lera has drifted into prostitution, while her college-educated cousin, Yulka, is a taciturn siren with a sadistic appetite for destruction. as a portrait of youthful desolation, Sigarev's 90-minute play is grippingly persuasive: my only regret is that he injects a note of fake lyricism symbolised by the discovery of the ladybird. No one could deny these characters their right to escapist fantasy; but the vaporous nature of
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Comedy One act
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