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After the End
8 Aug 2011
Gripping if uneven thriller adaptation
The action of Dennis Kelly’s thriller takes place in a nuclear shelter in the aftermath of an explosion, but the play’s politics, we discover, are of the personal rather than global kind. The two-hander opens immediately following the atrocity. Louise…
Orphans
14 Aug 2009
Rivetting exploration of urban fear
Dennis Kelly’s Orphans opens with a tableau that might have been culled from a conventional TV thriller. An ordinary couple, Helen and Danny, about to eat dinner, sit staring up at a man drenched in blood standing in their doorway. The man, it turns…
Crime or reason in Orphans
23 Jul 2009
Dennis Kelly and Roxana Silbert, talk about a more thoughtful urban crime thriller
In Sydney, it’s not uncommon to hear of people being beaten up for their wallet. Even in its new zero tolerance incarnation, New York still sees its share of muggings, while Johannesburg continues to see a good deal of robbery with violence.
