THAT title? Yes, Sonja Linden's play does contain exactly what it says on the tin, but that tells only half the story.
This is a two-hander from Ice And Fire Theatre Company, wherein two people from worlds apart meet at a refugee centre in London, and each benefits from the influence of the other.
The young lady from Rwanda is Juliette (Suzann McLean), an asylum seeker in her fifth month in the London grey. No TV, no friends, fearful, reluctant to eat, but resolute she will write a book on the 1994 genocide that killed her Tutsi family.
She is to be first "customer" of Simon (Joe Young), a dried-up poet and failing novelist in his forties, who has taken up a writing post working with refugees, just as Linden - herself a daughter of refugees from Nazi Germany - did in 1997.
Linden's account of the shifting sands of an uneasy relationship that throws up complex emotions yet brings light anew to both writers is poetic and potent, harrowing but hopeful, with a cathartic journey to counter the brutality that has gone before.
It is a social and political work, yet shot through with blunt humour, and North Yorkshire director Drew Ackroyd elects for a no-frills presentation where the words work their spell. In turn, McLean and Young hook you with their superb interplay.
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Updated: 10:16 Saturday, October 30, 2004
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