The Destroyed Room (2.5/5)

This show is either absorbing or below par, either way it is very disturbing.  In a comfortable living room three people discuss ISIS, executions and refugees.  There's a suggestion of improvisation, the dialogue can ramble and be unclear, regardless it's graphic and harrowing, questioning the extent observers like us can empathise with such dire scenarios.  A concluding video of lives lost in the Mediterranean seemed heavy-handed, as if the dialogue alone was insufficient.

Vanishing Point Theatre Comapny
Director (and conceived): Matthew Lenton

Saturday 6 August 2016, Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh.
Performing Arts: Theatre