Lift up the cover of the playtext for That Is Not Who I Am by Dave Davidson and another play will fall out. Long before the audience have stepped into the Royal Court, this play has us questioning the truth. The real play, that is. That Is Not Who I Am is a clever front for Rapture, a brilliantly tricksy new production by Lucy Kirkwood.
In an opening statement, we are told that Rapture is a response to a real-life investigation of a murdered couple, after the home secretary refused to release the report on their deaths. After legal challenges and threats, Kirkwood decided to publish the play under a pseudonym for her own safety. Directed slickly by Lucy Morrison, an immediate sense of discomfort is sewn into this remarkably layered, brain-boggling story, in which reality and sanity are under constant scrutiny.
