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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Arifa Akbar

The Breach review – a shocking and perplexing tale of abuse and power

Strangely sleepy … Shannon Tarbet and Alfie Jones in the Breach, Hampstead Theatre.
Strangely sleepy … Shannon Tarbet and Alfie Jones in the Breach, at Hampstead theatre. Photograph: Johan Persson

The Breach is packed full of shocks. A story of double rape as well as suicide and a workplace death that leaves a father’s limbs scattered across a construction site, it is told from the point of view of two siblings doing everything they can to hold on to their lives.

Its two time-frames capture the extent of love and sacrifice between tough-cookie Jude (portrayed in the 1970s scenes by Shannon Tarbet and in the 90s by Jasmine Blackborow) and Acton (Stanley Morgan), the bullied younger brother who is dead by the later years.

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