Earwig review – weightlifting, witches and one high-stakes curry
Last modified on Wed 3 Feb 2021 07.11 EST Haruki Murakami would have called it What I Talk About When I Talk About Weightlifting. The title chosen by playwright Stef Smith is The Deadlift. Like Murakamiâs book on running, this dreamy meditation on a trip to the gym switches between the physical and the metaphysical, capturing a weightlifterâs meandering thoughts and juxtaposing them with the fleshy reality of joints, hamstrings and shoulder blades. Drifting and poetic, hers is the first episode of Earwig, a series of six âaudio drama podcastsâ directed by Finn den Hertog f...
Source: theguardian.com