Review - Theatre - Vardo
Vardo is the final play in Anu Production’s acclaimed ‘Monto Cycle’ series. Vardo is site-specific, immersive theatre that, like its predecessors, unfolds in a blur of movement around the streets of a small section of Dublin’s north inner city. In the play’s pivotal sequence, the audience is exposed to a bleak, non-descript, modern apartment, wherein a prostitution den has been set up.
You soon realise this den is operating without the consent of all the women, and in the kitchen space a horrifying injustice lingers in the air. Very soon, the innocuous table you sit beside is transformed, by the force of words alone, into something far more disturbing, while in a nearby bedroom, an encounter with one of the girls is poignant and affectionate, if also sad and dispiriting.
