![]() ![]() This balance of banal domestic realism with darkly surreal folklore elements makes for fertile dramatic tension in places. Specific personal memories are embedded in Walsh’s distillation of the novel, from nuanced observations on father-son dynamics to the bursts of pop music, television and news reportage that ground the action firmly in late 1980s London. The boys are autobiographical surrogates for Porter in the book, who lost a parent himself at the age of 6, though in his case it was his father. ![]() ![]() In Walsh’s interpretation, the character of Crow takes the form of a physical alter ego, preying on the grieving widower in his London apartment, literally taking him over like a demonic possession.ĭad (Murphy) lives with two young sons, alternately played in this production by four different actors: Leo Hart, Adam Pemberton, Taighen O’Callaghan and David Evans. ![]() The narrator’s professional obsession with Crow, a 1970 poetry collection written by Ted Hughes in the shadow of Sylvia Plath’s suicide, comes to haunt him in his fragile mental state. Published in 2015, Porter’s novel is a heavily stylized polyphonic prose poem about an unnamed father wrestling with the devastating aftershocks of his wife’s sudden death. ![]()
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