Theatre Review: A Prayer for My Daughter
- Posted on March 5, 2008 4:33 PM
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A Prayer for My Daughter
Young Vic Theatre, Monday 3rd March
Review by Zarina Raja
A Prayer for My Daughter turned out to be perfect viewing for a bitterly cold Monday night. As we sat huddled into the half-full Young Vic, a fast-paced ‘who dun it?’ began to unfold.
The play is set in a drab and stuffy police office with only a few Fourth of July streamers up as decorations. You could almost smell the cigarette smoke that would have clogged up the room were this to be real life.
Two crooks are dragged into the dreary box office; one an older and apparently more educated man who was a former Vietnam medical technician and the other, his junky ‘daughter’ - who is actually a boy and not of any relation to his ‘dad.’ Interesting, I can tell you.
Despite representing the authority, officers Kelly and Jack seem to be no better than the crooks that they are determined to get a confession out of for the shooting of an old lady.
In this furiously acted, can-almost-feel-the-actor’s-spit-on-my-face performance, it is impossible to deny that A Prayer for My Daughter was anything but rich and provocative. It managed to entwine the problems of the legal system with the individual character's more personal issues.
A Prayer for My Daughter is a compelling watch that keeps you hooked from start to finish, all the while guessing your own way to the truth.
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