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Review of ‘Darkling’: “Coming-of-age drama doesn’t reach maturity, and neither does the performance”
The pieces are all there. Some of them are properly assembled. Others (perhaps most) need further polishing for the whole thing to come together. Still, something pulsates about Darkling, a play that depicts the struggles of a disadvantaged Indian girl born into strict cultural traditions, culminating in the infamous Bhopal disaster that changed and, in…
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Review of ‘Duet for One’: “A haunting enticement”
Tom Kempinski’s touching piece dealing with terminal disease returns to London in a fully reworked production directed by Richard Beecham. Guillermo Nazara reviews this limited-running play starring Tara Fitzgerald and Maureen Beattie, to share his thoughts about a work of fiction raising awareness about a most devastating reality.
