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CONUNDRUM: Pierro Niel-Mee as Victor
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Once Upon a Time in Nazi-occupied Tunisia
Almeida Theatre, London
THE key question set by this intriguing new Josh Azouz play is just how close to the surface our prejudices lie – and how much it takes to bring them to the fore.
Azouz tries to supply some answers through the experiences of two young Tunisian couples, one Jewish (Loys and Victor) and one Arab (Faiza and Yussef), whose previously harmonious relationships are deeply unsettled by the invading Germans in 1942.
As rifts open up and the malign presence of the Nazis drives a wedge within and between them, Loys (Yasmin Paige) declares to Victor (Pierro Niel-Mee) that “the occupation has made us not ourselves,” while Victor, in gloomier frame of mind, asks: “What if it has revealed who we are?”
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