A Slow Fire review – hope flickers in Simon Stephens’ postapocalyptic bunker drama
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonTwo men shelter from catastrophe in this Beckettian tale of memory, companionship and survival, which is intelligently performed but light on tensionJermyn Street’s basement theatre provides the perfect space for Simon Stephens’ postapocalyptic play about two men hiding in a bunker after an unnamed global catastrophe. Several of Beckett’s plays have been performed on this stage in recent years and these characters are distinctly Beckettian. Ashton (Ross Gaynor) and Reece (Ian Toner) may be the last men…
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