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Communism’s gone, so what’s left for this family?
I MISS COMMUNISM
Hackney Empire Studio Theatre
THREE women, three generations, three wars, three governments, three currencies. The words resound in my head and no doubt the lyrics from the musical Oliver! will plague your mind as soon as you leave this compelling piece of theatre written by writer and actor Mark Soper.
A one-woman band, the energetic Ines Wurth performs 15 roles over the period of an hour- and-a-half, following her personal experiences as a young person growing up under the Communist regime of Tito in Yugoslavia to her move to America as an actress, and the return journey from Greece to Croatia. Playing the feisty, bold characters of the mother and grandmother, Wurth switches roles with impressive ease in such a demanding piece, demonstrating not only a
strongly heartfelt performance but a rare dynamism.
From the rewrite of All That Jazz, a frolicsome rendition of the Chicago musical hit, to the obsession with hits from Oliver!, the play is threaded with the right balance of comedy as Wurth recounts the “incident” she encounters with the Serbian soldiers on her return to her home in Croatia.
Harking back to a fragmented time of unrest within a strict regime, the personal story is one of disillusion, not only towards a country but a family who have lost a sense of unity.
This in total makes for a powerful, mesmerising drama which questions the heady collapse of Communism against the new capitalism which engulfs them.
Until September 23
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