(Ms. Devlin and Ms. Turner, the director, are frequent, and invaluable, collaborators.) Rather like the American playwright Neil LaBute, who has traversed comparable terrain in such plays as “Bash: Latter-Day Plays,” Mr. Kelly addresses humankind’s capacity for violence at every turn. But not content to leave well enough alone, Mr. Kelly dresses up his narrative in ways that detract from its power, like some overzealous puppeteer. (You can’t help but feel that Mr. Kelly devised his play in order to corroborate a grim statistic that’s mentioned near the end.) Directed by John Hoggarth.

Source: New York Times February 22, 2018 04:52 UTC