London Theater Journal: Big Ideas in Small Spaces
Some plays are worth defying claustrophobia for. As a capacity audience crowded onto the benches that surrounded the rectangular stage of the tiny black-box space of the Royal Court Jerwood Theater Upstairs, I could feel my chest tightening and my breath growing shorter. It didn’t help that layers of white balloons covered (and lowered) the ceiling in molecular formations. I had to admonish myself, as I do in such circumstances, «Theater critics do not faint on the job — except, on rare occasion, metaphorically.»
01/13/2012
— Filed under: Society
Tags: London, Royal Court Theater
