Silent Approach – New Adelphi Theatre
Silent Approach is a sobering play depicting a timeline of emotional battles, with mental health, guilt and feelings of overwhelming shame to a place of “triumphant recovery”.
Marcella Hazell is Rebecca House, a Lancashire serving policewoman who tells her story through an unfiltered lens. A raw hard-hitting portrayal of life as a respected functioning police officer protecting the public to a time in slow motion when she couldn’t even protect herself from her dark thoughts and suicidal ideations.
The scenes are a hybrid between video footage to on stage performance which is becoming popular in small stage productions and is highly effective. At times it felt a little uncoordinated as the scene changes came quickly but this didn’t distract too much from the essence of the meani...