29 June
Noel Coward Theatre
And now I know the
stage, the set, my seat
as well as my own
house; each character a brother
and their voice
familiar as a well-loved song.
Eight hours in and I have
nestled down
into another world,
unknown and yet only a step or soar away
through swimming pools
and mansions,
highballs and rubies,
love and the excited thought of love;
and here we fly on words,
lyrical, dancing,
peacock-bright and gorgeously bejewelled girls and men
who barely know what
they are there for,
tinkering with their
lives with such unearthly, trivial,
disastrous consequences.
It is a joyous ride,
exotic, carefree, beautiful,
and yet even the air is tainted
with the coming storm.
You smell the tragedy
before it hits. Warm as
a puppy. Breathless. Inevitable.
Gatz plays at the Noel Coward Theatre until 15 July
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