Beauty Parlour/Reflecting Flesh, Norwich
Two one-act plays reflected each other like mirrors in the Minotaur Theatre's double bill at UEA's Studio Theatre. Beauty Palour began the evening with an account of a disturbed girl being arrested after cutting her breasts in a beauty salon.
By JOHN SMART
Two one-act plays reflected each other like mirrors in the Minotaur Theatre's double bill at UEA's Studio Theatre. Beauty Palour began the evening with an account of a disturbed girl being arrested after cutting her breasts in a beauty salon. The play then created the reasons that lead to this.
In this one-woman show, Anna Helm played the contrasting personalities of the western beautician and the Indian country girl with a conviction that gripped the audience. This poetic new play was written and directed by graduate student KF Freenath.
Much more experimental was the second half, Reflecting Flesh, a show written and devised by the company based on the poem Mirror written by Sylvia Plath.
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Rosa Wyatt directed and performed with imagination.
The play was very funny at times and sad at others.
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The cast used mime and movement to ask questions about what we see when we look in our mirrors.
The lonely life of the bedsitter and its occupants was sharply observed in this strange and moving production.
