Buggers review – phenomenal flesh and blood portrait of Francis Bacon and George Dyer
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe painter and his lover are played with real intensity by Alistair Hall and Peter Clements, in a visceral psychodrama of contained violence and sadnessThe famously fraught relationship between the artist Francis Bacon and his lover-muse, George Dyer, has been much documented. So it is remarkable that this play by Alistair Hall makes the story so utterly fresh and arresting. Hall has dr…