Genre: Edgy urban drama but with univeral theme of loss and longing and damaged relationships
This was well staged with stark choreographed intermissions of people rusjhing aroud ataions, but actually I wondered afterwards quite how that really related to the main subject matter, which was a series of encounters by a London cabbie, with a dark, shattering secret, with his "fares, as we call them".
The mini- stories of "the Fres" were not all immediately comprehensible, but the main story carried it through and the revelation of the secret was suitably shocking.
It might be a few to many swerar words for rural sensibilities, but the main issue would be the cast of 12, which seemed a bit self-indulgenyt of the Director as I am sure they could have been double-cast.
I was also surprised that there wasn't a black actor amongst the cast, which has already played in London.
4* performance but not really suitable for touring.
JO Cheshire
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