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Meet Me at Dawn, Arcola Theatre London
Moving meditation on love and loss from Zinnie Harris
PIC CAP Tragedy in miniature: Meet Me at Dawn Pic: Lidia Chrisafulli

ARTISTS have been inspired by the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice since ancient Greece and Zinnie Harris has joined their ranks with a two-hander that focuses on the moment Orpheus looks back and realises the full extent of his loss.

Harris’s simple, stylish and compressed version follows two women stranded on a surreal sandbank after a boating accident. The couple approach their new, strange reality with intriguingly contrasting emotions.

Marianne Oldham’s Robyn acts as a fearful narrator and it soon becomes apparent that the reflective, echoing world where they are marooned is her troubled mindscape attempting to make sense of the present.

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