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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****)

Ola Teniola and Wisdom Iheoma
Ola Teniola and Wisdom Iheoma
Ola Teniola
Wisdom Iheoma and Ola Teniola
Wisdom Iheoma
Wisdom Iheoma and Ola Teniola
Ola Teniola and Wisdom Iheoma
Ola Teniola
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