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Review: Things I Know to be True at Ilkley Playhouse
Dreams of fame trap and inspire in Jez Butterworth’s female-centred, Blackpool-set new play; Lemn Sissay takes a personal approach to Kafka; and the Sex and the City creator is full of unsurprises
Frantic Assembly’s new version, penned by Lemn Sissay, may be poetically vivid and visually mesmerising, but it is terminally plagued by dramatic inertia. Without that key ingredient, the production melts into the looming shadows. An expressionistic mess. But a beautiful one to watch unravel.
The physical theatre is a spectacle, but it also comes across as filler for a fairly flimsy story, and the stage is sometimes very busy for the sake of busyness.