Plastic review " anger becomes slaughter in Essex school drama
Old Red Lion, LondonKenneth Emson's fascinating play has its characters speaking in jagged rhyme, but it rests on some questionable assumptions about its settingThis curious 70-minute play by Kenneth Emson, presented in association with the Mercury theatre, Colchester, offers a bleak vision of life in Essex. The setting is a small Thames Estuary town of limited chances and failed dreams. Forsaking linear narrative, E…