![]() Jarrett in ‘Escaped Alone’ at Signature Theatre. Jarrett (persuasively portrayed by Valerie Leonard) created by Churchill aiming and successful in awakening audiences to something beyond a secular message? Or is the current divide between religion and secular lives so wide that it is not crossable? A message that horrors await even the good and righteous if God wills it so? Was Churchill being coy about a newly awakened faith in herself and speaking about it to those taking in her Escaped Alone? Did it matter? Valerie Leonard as Mrs. More specifically, was the character of Mrs. Had Churchill found a faith I had not seen before in her other plays? Had I missed something in the past? Had she become a prophet with her four characters delivering horrendous messages to me like a slap across my face–pay heed or suffer the consequences? Churchill’s storyline seemed more than a Herman Melville hunt for the White Whale as narrated by Ishmael as the lone survivor. It was a dramatized Book of Job that I had studied and re-read over the years. Quickly it came to me, filtered through my own Tanakh knowledge base. It was about coming days of reckoning unless the messengers were heeded. It was about the Biblical proportions of pounding rains, destroyed towns, inundated tunnels, with plenty of death and wanton destruction leaving only a few survivors. ![]() She was speaking about climate change, and way more.Ĭhurchill was a messenger speaking through four mature women during teatime on a sunny day in a pretty backyard somewhere in the UK. She was speaking to us in these murky contemporary days, not from millennia ago. Beyond the sure-footed production directed by Holly Twyford, I “read” Escaped Alone’s playwright Caryl Churchill as taking on the role of a merciless Biblical messenger. I was mesmerized well beyond the superlative performances and the overall production values of Escaped Alone. Jarrett, Helen Hedman as Sally, Catherine Flye as Vi, and Brigid Cleary as Lena in ‘Escaped Alone’ at Signature Theatre. The production at Signature Theatre is receiving rightful praise (read my colleague Barbara Mackay’s review here).Īdd me to those hoping you will see it. What a play! Escaped Alone is full of dramatic presentations announcing a coming apocalypse an end of days.
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