"Some stories are more powerful than others"
I'm not normally one for doing preview pieces but for this show, I'm making the exception. Douglas Rintoul's
Elegy was one of the best shows I saw in 2012, making
my top 25 for the year and inspiring
a rather rapturous review. So I was glad to hear that a) it has had a successful time of it since then, winning an RNT Foundation Playwright Award and touring internationally (indeed the show is currently enjoying a critically acclaimed Spanish language run in Madrid) and b) it is returning to the UK for dates here in London and in Brighton.
This one-man-show is brilliant but brutal, a searing insight into the LGBT refugee experience as a gay Iraqi man is forced on the run when the 'liberation' of the post-Saddam regime takes a decidedly more conservative turn, It's the type of subject that one sadly imagines will never not be resonant somewhere somehow and with the rise of Islamic State in the Middle East, certainly now more than ever. Adam Best will be taking on the unnamed role and Rintoul directs in what will be one of the more haunting productions you'll see all year long.
Elegy plays
VAULT Festival 2015, London
25 Feb – 1 Mar 2015, 9.30pm
Pink Fringe, Brighton
4 - 5 March 2015, 7:30pm
And if you can't make any of these dates, then the show is being recorded and will be released as a digital download to coincide with Refugee Week in June.
Labels: Adam Best, Douglas Rintoul
