Duplicity Girls, at the White Bear February 21, 2010
Posted by CamdenKiwi in : Reviews , trackbackA woman comes home through the Canadian snow. Her sister is waiting, wanting to know where she’s been. At the start, its almost irritating. The one who has been out makes Martinis for them both, trying to make her sister choose between an olive and an onion then undermining her choice, pushing her back in the other direction with ‘giddy banter’. Is the housebound sister ill, perhaps some sort of dementia? Is it really something to laugh at? Some people find it funny but I feel uncomfortable.
Paula Costain and Johanna Nutter as the two women present an hour of very disturbing theatre. They talk, intensely and claustrophobically, and argue like children, tormenting each other until its hard to know what is real or if they even alive. Even the half-expected denouement left me unsure.
Duplicity Girls is on transfer from Montreal, and only has one more date in London, at the White Bear on 22 Feb. It’s well worth seeing.
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