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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Mark Fisher

Kes review – superb poetic evocation of much-loved tale

All the while Smith circles the action … Jake Dunn, Nishla Smith and Harry Egan in Kes.
All the while Smith circles the action … Jake Dunn, Nishla Smith and Harry Egan in Kes. Photograph: Marc Brenner

Nishla Smith silences the theatre. She appears from on high and squats quizzically, fingers gripping the top edge of Anisha Fields’s wide white set like talons. Her expression is still. Poised. Falcon-like. A stretch of her arms and she fixes her gaze once more.

Down at stage level, her movements are mirrored by Harry Egan, a multi-role-playing narrator, crouching over a cardboard box containing remnants of the emotionally deprived childhood of Billy Casper.

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