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The Sacrifice
Two brothers
play out their fantasies with an enigmatic young woman. But what
appears to be a game turns into tragedy as desire shows her true
face... Fusing rapid-fire dialogue and brutal poetry with visual beauty and live music: when Salome's kiss transforms desire into sacrifice.
The Sacrifice is a British play which continues John Ford’s tradition of poetic language and violence (with its two main influences being the unfairly neglected Love’s Sacrifice and the more popular Tis Pity she’s a whore).
It confronts
the idea of having to “give something up to get something else” -
only in this case we are dealing with human emotions and family
history - in a time where the one who can survive, is the one who
can protect himself.
In a rare love triangle, with a modern thirsty-for-security Salome, the characters are dreamers of reduced responsibility – they refuse to own up to reality – and their only weakness is their fear of the “dark”, or of being alone.
But still, three is a difficult number. If this was a real game - only one of the three could be the winner. Oliver Emanuel bitterly stresses that “Love doesn’t last forever, love doesn’t last”- let alone the fantasy...
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