Theatre: Neill Fleming evokes real fear in Stewart Roche’s intricate, intellectually daring tale for our confused and troubling times
In the upstairs room of the Viking Theatre, Lankum’s stunning rendition of Go Dig My Grave plays in the darkness. It sets the tone: prophetic, mournful, inflected with dark Druidic power.
As the lights come on, a man stumbles on to the proscenium stage covered in dirt, a filthy keffiyeh hanging from his neck, and begins to devour tea and biscuits with guttural, almost animal sounds of pleasure.
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