12 Nov A Window @ Oval House, London | Theatre Review

A Window (a triptych) playing at the Oval House until 14 November, is the latest theatrical piece by controversial playwright, Edward Bond. As with several others of Bond’s, it is in association with the Big Brum Theatre company which works extensively with young people, taking their plays on tour around the UK’s schools, seeking to engage the youth. A Window tells the traumatic story of a nameless couple and their son. Seventeen odd years before he’s born, his mother (played by Liz Brown) reads in a newspaper the gruesome tale of a woman who deliberately blinds her son so that he might be more dependent on her. Brown’s character is so distressed that her already fragile emotional state plunges to a new low. Having recently learned that she is pregnant the story resonates with her all the more. She seeks isolation from all around her, including her unsympathetic boyfriend played by Richard Holmes. He insists that she terminates the pregnancy and when she refuses he walks out.

12 Nov A Window @ Oval House, London | Theatre Review

A Window (a triptych) playing at the Oval House until 14 November, is the latest theatrical piece by controversial playwright, Edward Bond. As with several others of Bond’s, it is in association with the Big Brum Theatre company which works extensively with young people, taking their plays on tour around the UK’s schools, seeking to engage the youth. A Window tells the traumatic story of a nameless couple and their son. Seventeen odd years before he’s born, his mother (played by Liz Brown) reads in a newspaper the gruesome tale of a woman who deliberately blinds her son so that he might be more dependent on her. Brown’s character is so distressed that her already fragile emotional state plunges to a new low. Having recently learned that she is pregnant the story resonates with her all the more. She seeks isolation from all around her, including her unsympathetic boyfriend played by Richard Holmes. He insists that she terminates the pregnancy and when she refuses he walks out.