WAR is never out of the headlines, especially at the moment, and its
madness and futility devastates souls as well as bodies. Crossfire, the
new play from Paines Plough, is a horrifying panoramic look at man's
inhumanity to man -- or more important, man's inhumanity to the children
of the human race.
Crossfire is a ''war zone of the imagination'', in which physically
and emotionally crippled children roam, bereft of parents, of sibblings
and of love. It is not a naturalistic piece and contains characters such
as Mother Hen, a mythic figure who shambles down through the centuries
looking for Jerusalem and the murdered children of the Lost Crusade.
The company have won several awards for plays at the festival, notably
the Time Out award when Augustine -- Big Hysteria transferred to London.
Crossfire was written by Catalan-born Michel Azama. This is a British
premiere of his work. It runs at the Traverse Theatre from August
24-September 4.
This is a good company, a good author, and a good cause. It is not one
of the holidays in other people's misery which TV brings us but a
serious attempt at understanding. See it if you can.
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