The Drowned World " review
Chapter, CardiffIn the nine years since Gary Owen's ferociously bleak dystopian play premiered, its concerns have grown ever more pressing. This is a world divided into the beautiful and repellent, the pure and the foul: surface image is everything. If it now feels prophetic, in a time when cosmetic surgery thrives, the play still has a vicious sting; here the gorgeous are hunted, rounded up, annihilated, and the put…