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WISHBONE: _: HI. I. . The Blair facts INTERFERENCE : " . u i: 1' -' :T'w " " There's no doubting the ambition of theatre Babel's attempt to unify several great Greek tragedies. .... . ‘23- " ' -z' 22 " -- and by and large. they‘re successful in their endeavours. The task facing Liz Lochhead is formidable: Interfere With your . , . , . . . . perceptions 2: 2 ' ' -4 telling, effectively, the story of five Theban plays by Sophocles, Aescyllus and Euripedes from .'.' ' ;'.:' 2 7' Oedipus to Antigone. In it a metaphor for contemporary culture and particularly political power -' . ' a-.-','. " - m: : -- .~ » emerges very strongly initially, though things get a little hazier as the two-hour performance w: :- T" 2', : progresses. .: 2 . ' You won't need me to interpret the relevance of the story of an emergent new government which 2 :2: w 2m: z "2 -~ r 2 _:', promises openness, but eventually becomes a simple means-to-an-ends mechanism for retaining w»? ' '. 2 ' " 2 power with war and deception no impediment. There are moments of striking dramatic power. on the . t" a '2 -- way as Lochhead’s poetic mediation of our current realities takes hold. : _: ‘ f~ : ' ~" .~ But there are also moments where the narrative seems to lose its contemporary voice a little. . t ’. : ' 2 . ' " - " 1' 2' Graham McLaren‘s staging aims toward the ritual elements of public display that exist within our 329-2 '* ' ' ' '-v 2 '7' -’ ~ 2 culture and that of the Greeks. and is strong. if not especially original. The performances are good, : ' f'w iii-x t" 1'». 2 2 3.: 2:" -- with exceptional work early on from Jennifer Black’s bewildered Jocasta. and throughout from John ':"'. a. ‘2 2:21 u ":2 ":2. Kazek, as Creon, who inherits leadership, and is destined, inevitably to repeat the errors of his
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