Piece of Silk, Hope Theatre, London
The claustrophobic, small, dark space of a fringe theatre upstairs in a London pub is the perfect setting for Jennie Buckman’s new play, ‘Piece of Silk’, derived from the Arabian Nights story of Scheherazade and the experiences of women survivors of domestic violence.
Sitting cramped and close up to the action, the audience is confronted with the raw reality of control, family dynamics and love gone wrong. Living under the same roof, with escape hard to imagine or effect, the characters in this powerful study bring home to us how, as Buckman puts it, ’story-telling is a matter of life and death.’
