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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Arifa Akbar

Psychodrama review – noirish inner world of murderous lovers is disjointed and draining

Iara Solano Arana and Christopher Brett Bailey in Psychodrama.
A vortex of nightmarish scenarios … iara Solano Arana and Christopher Brett Bailey in Psychodrama. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/the Guardian

Psychodrama is described as a love letter to storytelling by its creators, Christopher Brett Bailey and the experimental theatre company, Sleepwalk Collective. This production certainly innovates in the delivery of the story, which is transmitted to us through headphones as its two performers speak their feverish, non-sequitur tale into microphones.

Bailey and iara Solano Arana, sit at a desk, looking and sounding as if they have stumbled out of a David Lynch film. They play lovers on the road and out to kill. They wear period wigs, circa 18th-century France (designed by Katie Du’Mont) along with 21st-century dress, which makes them look like modern disciples of the Marquis de Sade.

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