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Nightfall, Bridge Theatre review ★★★★★

28 Apr 18 – 26 May 18, 7:45 PM – 9:45 PM

Barney Norris, hailed as one of our most promising playwrights, returns with a new play about family life and loss, set in the countryside near Winchester

By Lucy Brooks on 10/5/2018

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Nightfall revolves are love, desperation and resentment in rural Hampshire. It’s imbued with the themes of decay and lost livelihoods that have become rather a trademark for writer Barney Norris (Visitors, 2014; Eventide 2015 While We're Here 2017).


Designer Rae Smith turns London’s slick new Bridge Theatre into a scruffy farmyard with tufty grass, moody skies and an array of garden furniture.


Pete (Ukweli Roach) is recently out of prison. Now he’s helping his friend Ryan (Sion Dancel Young) to illegally siphon off oil. But Pete’s also there to rekindle his relationship with Ryan’s sister, Lou (Ophelia Lovibond).


The siblings are coming to terms with their father’s death, weighed down by the pressure to take over the failing family farm. Their mother Jenny (Claire Skinner) is so stymied by grief and a rose-tinted desperation to preserve their way of life that she barely registers her children’s misery.



l-r Sion Daniel Young (Ryan), Claire Skinner (Jenny), Ophelia Lovibond (Lou), Ukweli Roach (Pete)


The dramas, revelations and conflicts that dominate the next two and half hours verge on soap opera. But there’s enough tenderness to the story-telling and nuance to the performances to keep this play free of sensation. Instead it’s an elegy, an intimate look at waste, loss and the lies we tell ourselves.


Naturalistic dialogue is peppered with striking moments of lyricism. The writing is exquisite, even if it sometimes feels a touch too artful and poetic to come out of the characters’ mouths.


Aside from a few moments of wry comedy Nightfall is bleak watch; we see the character’s hopes and dreams seeping away and leaking out like the oil that Ryan’s siphoning off into his own tank.




What Nightfall, Bridge Theatre review
Where Bridge Theatre, 3 Potters Fields Park, London, SE1 2SG | MAP
Nearest tube London Bridge (underground)
When 28 Apr 18 – 26 May 18, 7:45 PM – 9:45 PM
Price £15 - £65
Website Click here to book via the Bridge Theatre



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