Sense of an ending
Dystopia: Ross Gaynor as Ashton in A Slow Fire
Alex Brenner
A Slow Fire, getting a UK premiere after a Dublin run, is set after a global catastrophe of unspecified nature, although the familiar triggers in this genre – war, global warming, pandemics and collapsing capitalism – are cited in various lines.
Simon Stephens is a highly accomplished playwright whose work ranges from Punk Rock (2009), prescient about the rise of adolescent violence to self and others, to Vanya (2023), making Chekhov’s drama a monologue for Andrew Scott.
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