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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Arifa Akbar

Dixon and Daughters review – comic domestic noir reveals grim shadows

A scene from Dixon and Daughters by Deborah Bruce at the Dorfman theatre, London.
Unwelcome home … Dixon and Daughters by Deborah Bruce at the Dorfman theatre, London. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian

The set reveals a house sliced apart so we see the cast moving through its rooms. One bedroom remains dark, empty, tomblike. When a guest is sent to sleep there she runs out because she feels its “bad energy”.

We learn that it belonged to the only man in this family with six women. He died under such a cloud that his grave has been graffitied and his wife, Mary (Bríd Brennan), has served a prison sentence for defending whatever he did.

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