One Who Wants to Cross
By Marc-Emmanuel Soriano / translated by Amanda Gann

An English language premiere at the Finborough Theatre in 2022.

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Picked as number 3 in The Guardian's Best Theatre of 2023:

 'Some shows lodge in the mind and refuse to be forgotten. The Finborough’s devastating two-hander about a migrant marooned on the wrong side of a stretch of water, prevented from restarting his life after an unnamed trauma, was one of them.'

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CAST

Wisdom Iheoma

Ola Teniola

 

Direction: Alice Hamilton

Set and Costume: Sarah Beaton

Lighting: Jamie Platt

Sound and Music: Daniel Balfour

Photography: Ali Wright

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‘As epic and mythic as Greek tragedy… there is an incantatory quality to the script that becomes hypnotic, its power matched by mesmerising performances.’

(Arifa Akbar, The Guardian ****)

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Director Alice Hamilton invests the piece with a sense of understated, restless tension, keeping the performers in gradual but constant motion. Her thoughtfully considered traverse staging cleverly splits the audience into two camps separated by a yawning gulf of almost-empty space.’

(Dave Fargnoli, The Stage ****)

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Directed with crisp, pared back, elegance by Alice Hamilton, this is a powerful and harrowing contemplation on a contemporary human calamity'

(John Cutler, Reviews Hub****)

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