الأحد، 23 يوليو 2017

Bodies review – the high price of a rented womb

Royal Court, London
Vivienne Franzmann examines the economics and human cost of surrogacy in this thought-provoking drama

Vivienne Franzmann has made her name with dramas – Mogadishu, The Witness – about scruples, power and exploitation. Now she examines surrogacy. The economics and the human cost. In Bodies, Justine Mitchell plays, with febrile precision, a white English telly producer desperate to conceive. She is efficient but frantic. Even her description of making kale crisps is obsessional – though perhaps making kale crisps is a definition of an obsessive. Her husband is used to confiscating razor blades and refusing invitations where children are present: Jonathan McGuinness, standing in for a sick Brian Ferguson, showed how a script in the hand need not impede a passionate performance.

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from Pregnancy | The Guardian http://ift.tt/2vxhEQC

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