A parkkeeper patrols a closed park on a winter’s night when he stumbles across a mysterious woman in a white ballet dress. She refuses to leave, insisting she must make enough paper swans to cover the frozen lake before morning. A dreamlike sequence between the pair repeats in a loop, each time slightly different, with symbolism ripe for the audience to form their own understanding of events.
The Brightening Air – The Old Vic
There’s a moment, nestled deep within The Brightening Air, where the ordinary slips sideways into the otherworldly – and you feel it as surely as the curtain catching the wind in the play’s opening image.
Antigone [on strike], Park Theatre
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Antigone [on strike] is a piece of political immersive theatre. It only lasts ninety minutes, there’s no interval. It’s thought-provoking on matters of how the media influences politics and public reactions to issues around immigration, human rights and extremism. Take someone you’re happy to argue with about it on the way home.