Playwright Alistair McDowall returns to the Royal Court Theatre with the fascinatingly if challengingly constructed The Glow
“Matter may decay, but the spirit persists. The energy we exude remains“
If you’re in any way familiar with Alistair McDowall’s work (X, Pomona), you know that we’re not ever going to go straight from A to B. His latest play for the Royal Court is The Glow and once again is full of hugely fascinating ideas and a hugely ambitious approach to form that is quite the challenge.
We start in a forgotten cell in an underground Victorian asylum where a spiritualist is hunting for a medium whose power she wants to tap into. But the woman she finds is uniquely powerful and we find ourselves ricocheting from prehistoric times to 1970s Wales to medieval Europe and beyond. Continue reading “Review: The Glow, Royal Court”