Anyone running a far-right festival would want to keep a close eye on their guest list. Anna and Eireni would immediately arouse suspicion. That is not because of their freshly struck lesbian love affair nor their inclusive leftist politics. Those characteristics would be giveaways, of course, but they would be easy to hide. No, what would surely give the game away for these two student infiltrators is how wholesome they were.
In Debbie Hannan’s breathlessly performed production for Broccoli Arts, Yasemin Özdemir as Eireni (going undercover as “salty” Irina) and Hannah Van Der Westhuysen as Anna (travelling as Anna-Maria) are so well brought up, so precise in their speech, so clearly undamaged by life that any self-respecting fascist would catch them in an instant. It would take more than a pretty white frock and a flowery shirt for these two to get away with going in disguise.
