Dawn - Theatre Review

What: Dawn When: 23-26 August Where: The Owl and Cat Theatre Written by: Samantha Cooper Directed by: Jaime Dorner Performed by; Lucy Orr, Roxana Paun Trifan, and Damian Vuleta. Dawn is a thrilling new play by American playwright Samantha Cooper and is showing this week only at The Owl and Cat Theatre. It is an uncompromising play about incest and pulls no punches on any of the people involved. This play has a couple of really surprising twists which you don't see coming, but which tell us so much more about the family than we'd ever have thought to question or perhaps even want to consider. Director Jaime Dorner is from New Zealand and true to the body of his work it is presented in a very visual aesthetic with clean lines - almost like a photographic stills gallery. The techniqus is very powerful for this play because it is like flicking through a family photo album. The play itself only runs over an hour but covers two days in the life of these people so perhaps