Showing @ Summerhall, Edinburgh until Sun 24 @ 12.20
The Waste Land Sisters takes influence from T.S Eliot and Anton Chekhov. The influence is implicit in the title and explicit in the dark Gothic set and costume design that echoes the imagery of a Chekhov play and Elliot’s bleak poem The Waste Land.
The performance is a varied one. The audience is witness to songs, physical theatre and puppetry. All these elements add to the madness that is on display as the dark and dismal story unfolds. At times the performance is pensive, thoughtful and delivered in subtle tones. Other times it is boisterous with the four performers giving their all and delivering the dialogue with harsh and abrupt mannerisms. The story itself takes its cues from Eliot’s epic poem. The Waste Land looked at post-World War One Europe and tried to make sense of the consequences. This in itself is an epic task and the performance of The Waste Land Sisters makes an ambitious attempt to reflect the source material in a bold and inventive performance.
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