Jacqueline Haigh has created a small but astonishing piece of student theatre in two sections. A Victorian mistress rails against the misery of her role and a modern young woman finds her identity and intelligence fragmenting rapidly. Common Fringe preoccupations are made fresh and gripping by Haigh's tight grasp on a language that is richly poetic without being purple. She sometimes runs too long with a single idea, but handles complex, disturbing concepts with a fierce assurance both as writer and performer.
Written for The Independent.
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