The production features two classic plays, unveiling class tension and toxic masculinity through Jimmy's cruel dynamics and Beatie's poignant realizations in Wesker's work.
- Tragedy
Banerjee’s stylised production contextualises Billy Howle’s Jimmy in a novel fashion, twisting his long rants into dadaist performance rather than radical honesty.
Indeed, in beautifully poetic terms, Soleimanpour also muses on how writing is a form of liberation, exploration, and time travel. He is partly in Iran in 2010, but also now exists in every place around the world which has staged his play.
The angry young woman has fared far better in Arnold Wesker’s Roots, written in 1958, which comes as part of the Almeida’s Angry and Young season.
Clark is superb—in a break from her grumpier Rings of Power and Saint Maud image, she really injects a lot of warmth and niceness into the role.
