Seeing Dance
Paradise Lost is a work that leaves you stunned. It rattles along at a reckless pace, seeming to have no direction then hits the target with blinding accuracy. Afifi manages to slip betwixt and between the characters, juggling the humour and the deadly serious with great dexterity in a performance that, despite its low-key wrapping, is a tour de force.
London Theatre
There’s much to think about in this intense and intriguing performance.
****
The Independent
“The comedy is divine, but the images of love and loss are achingly human.” *****
The Observer
“As everything begins to go terribly, cosmically wrong, we realise that while the fictional Duke has been playing the fool, the real Duke has executed a deft conjuring trick, presenting us in words and movement of increasing darkness with the essence of Milton’s poem.”
The Guardian
“This is so flawed, funny and oddly noble a portrait of God, that the most hard-hearted atheist may find him hard to resist.” ****