Royal Court, LondonAlice Birch's riveting play, expertly directed by Katie Mitchell, examines how devastating sadness can seep through generations of womenWhen sadness runs through a family, is it inherited? Alice Birch's skewering Anatomy of a Suicide suggests something more complicated. A sort of hypnotism. A transfixing of one generation by another. A daughter who finds her mother's life compelling may vacate her …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AM on June 18, 2017