1st Edition

Alistair McDowall's Pomona

By David Ian Rabey Copyright 2018
86 Pages
by Routledge

86 Pages
by Routledge

86 Pages
by Routledge

‘It’s all real. All of it. Everything bad is real’ - Moe Alistair McDowall’s Pomona was first staged in 2014 and won properly startling, and startled, acclaim. Its edgeland setting permits a surrealistic disengagement of linear forms of time, which is both dreamlike and wildly funny; nightmarish and ominously enveloping. The play has as its imaginative springboard a landscape which is both... Read more
  1. Introduction: darkness on the edge of town
  2. First loop: let’s break into hell
  3. Second Loop: the double act of you
  4. Aftershocks and resonances: the evening redness in the North West

Biography

David Ian Rabey is Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies in the Department of Theatre, Film, and Television Studies at Aberystwyth University, UK.