A Slow Fire review – hope flickers in Simon Stephens’ postapocalyptic bunker drama
Jermyn Street theatre, London Two men shelter from catastrophe in this Beckettian tale of memory, companionship and survival, which is intelligently performed but light on tension Jermyn Street’s basement theatre provides the perfect space for Simon Stephens’ postapocalyptic play about two men hiding in a bunker after an unnamed global catastrophe. Several of Beckett’s plays have been performed on this stage in recen
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Jermyn Street theatre, London Two men shelter from catastrophe in this Beckettian tale of memory, companionship and survival, which is intelligently performed but light on tension Jermyn Street’s basement theatre provides the perfect space for Simon Stephens’ postapocalyptic play about two men hiding in a bunker after an unnamed global catastrophe. Several of Beckett’s plays have been performed on this stage in recen
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A Slow Fire review – hope flickers in Simon Stephens’ postapocalyptic bunker drama
Jermyn Street theatre, London Two men shelter from catastrophe in this Beckettian tale of memory, companionship and survival, which is intelligently performed but light on tension Jermyn Street’s basement theatre provides the perfect space for Simon Stephens’ postapocalyptic play about two men hiding in a bunker after an unnamed global catastrophe. Several of Beckett’s plays have been performed on this stage in recen
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