6/11/2023 0 Comments Yen by Anna Jordan![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This tale of trapped siblings, 16-year-old Hench and 13-year-old Bobbie (a classic wind up merchant kid brother), is a triumphant mix of pithy, authentic dialogue, Polly Bennett’s extraordinary movement, a roller coaster plot and innovative staging that physically and psychologically limits the unfortunate children. A play inspired by a harrowing news report about two neglected teenage brothers abandoned to live the sort of depraved lifestyle that ends up getting them in the headlines doesn’t exactly sound like fruitful ground for a laugh-out-loud script.īut everything about Anna Jordan’s Yen is done to defy presumptions, injecting the most uncomfortable situations with a savagely dry humour that compels you to feel compassion for these lost boys when what you want to feel is disgust. ![]()
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