“I was happy to see the play; I’ll be happier still to read it.”
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“ ‘Graceland’ feels like it came from someone who has sat through thousands of hours of contemporary theatre and amalgamated them together into one zeitgeistal totality.”
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“It has echoes of Kristen Roupenian’s viral New Yorker story Cat Person but explores issues beyond gaslighting and toxic masculinity. Underneath, it’s a story about privilege.”
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"Romance goes wrong in this murky monologue ... The piece ... dispenses information so cautiously. On my way home, reading the script, I was still trying to piece together the fragments."
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"The script sounds almost novelistic in its language, beautiful at times. It is clear that Wong Davies is a delicate and thoughtful writer and there is daring in telling this explosive story so quietly."
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“This production, directed by Anna Himali Howard with Izzy Rabey, struggles to achieve lift-off.”
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“...this new play by Ava Wong Davies is a lethally precise anatomising of abuse, so stealthy that the word itself is never actually used.”
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"Sabrina Wu’s performance is as low key and subtle as the text itself... But somehow I would have preferred it if the text had been equally mucky, less literary and more direct."
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