Red Like Fruit – Traverse Theatre
Good sex, bad sex, wrong sex. What’s the difference? And does it really matter? Why struggle to articulate something that no one wants to hear anyway…?
When a Canadian investigative journalist starts researching a high-profile domestic violence case, it leads her to relive and reconsider some of her own life experiences, the results are disarming and disturbing.
This beautifully constructed two hander from the pen of Hannah Moscovitch has Lauren’s (Michelle Monteith) story being delivered as a deliciously hypnotic monologue by Luke (David Patrick Flemming). Flemming’s voice control and delivery are the real star of this show, a symphony of tone and indent, emphasis and half-finished sentence are a joy to the ear.
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Lauren sits on a raised Dias, swaying or head in...