ALICE HAMILTON
Theatre Director
One Who Wants to Cross
By Marc-Emmanuel Soriano / translated by Amanda Gann
An English language premiere at the Finborough Theatre in 2022.
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.'
CAST
Wisdom Iheoma
Ola Teniola
Direction: Alice Hamilton
Set and Costume: Sarah Beaton
Lighting: Jamie Platt
Sound and Music: Daniel Balfour
Photography: Ali Wright
‘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 ****)
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 ****)
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****)