One Man’s Wrathful Vengeance
Charles IsherwoodSeptember 15, 2010: “When we were deep into the orchard, I threw McClennan on his back, ripped his trousers and shorts off, slit them with the knife,” the man before us says without a flicker of emotion. With this arresting opening image, the solo play “Absolution,” at the 59E59 Theaters, establishes its grim, horrific tone. It’s hard to imagine that the next words out of the narrator’s mouth will be something like, “And then we had a spot of tea.”
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