Before Life and After/The Last Train
Aldeburgh Festival
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' The half-remembered thing evoked in Netia Jones's video and stage imagery was the branch railway line that ran between Leiston and Aldeburgh for over a century, until Beeching's axe fell on it in 1966...everything was done with such delicate tact. The best moments came when the performers found a real emotional heat -- as in Before Life and After itself, when a sense of real desperation pushed through the beautifully evocative surface'
Telegraph