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Doubt, certainty, doubt again.
The potential is there.
Not just sisters twins.
Cine and Naia are bonded by blood in more ways than one.
The sisters share vocal patterns, riffing off each other and sometimes speaking in unison.
They and the plays other characters also frequently narrate for themselves, as if delivering their own stage directions.
Or … Somethin like that, adds Anaia, Somewhere that dont feel right.
Weve got all we need to know, and then some.
Its a simple one: Make your daddy dead …
Kill his spirit, then the body, like he did me … Dead, real dead.
Lotsa blood is fine.
Shes caustic and unsentimental O, you know.
Dukess eyes widen and flash maniacally as she tells tells the story of the fire.
She longs for blood, and only her own blood can spill it.
After all, She made us, Anaia reasons to herself.
We aint got no foundation …
I wanna step on somethin for once.
See what it feels like.
As Anaia and Racine, Alfie Fuller and Dame-Jasmine Hughes are the strong center of the show.
Its ultimately Magar who could push the production further.
And then theres the violence.
Harriss play is sinister fun as a collage of styles and references, from hip-hop toHigh Noon.
Its also a disquieting allegory.
For many, thats not myth but bitter reality.
Must it be fulfilled?
Can it be escaped?
Is God Isis at Soho Rep.
