A Small and Quiet Light review – fractured portrait of a remarkable wartime spy
Minerva theatre, ChichesterA female secret agent’s extraordinary courage never quite comes to life in a drama that struggles to find tension in her high-stakes storyNoor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan was a second world war spy codenamed Madeleine. A mixed-heritage British Indian and Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent in Nazi-occupied Paris who showed extraordinary courage, her story is ripe for dramatic retelling. So why does it feel so fractured and unsatisfactory in director Elin Schofield’s production?Perhaps because of the limited documentation of this…
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