Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

Everyone should see this pious anti-war monologue – seriously

Plus: Debris at the Southwark Playhouse attempts to produce heightened drama from murderous squalor – and fails

Debris at the Southwark Playhouse Photo: Richard Davenport 
issue 10 May 2014

Off to the Gate for a special treat: a pious anti-war monologue from the prize-winning American George Brant. Curtain up. And within seconds all my preachy prejudices have fallen apart. The speaker is a female pilot in a jump suit sealed within a see-through cage. Slaying men is her vocation.

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