Which doesn't really excite me as a goal. And perhaps the idea was to take a known or familiar news story and then track a little back in time in order to create empathy for the criminal. and so is seen and reported on much more widely. The state takes over, suddenly there are laws that are actually enforced rather than negotiated, and this felt much more familiar since the part of their lives that is subject to the state is the part that is covered by media, etc. Anna Jordan's Bruntwood Prize-winning play, Yen explores a childhood lived without boundaries and the consequences of being forced to grow up on your own. I was wanting to see more of Hench/Jessica navigating the terms of a relationship where there has been no clear example for Hench to follow, but we arrive at the crisis of this failure to navigate very suddenly, and much of what follows just seems like the plodding through consequence rather than a pushing forward through (for me) not entirely familiar territory. I think I would have been more interested in a play without the assault and without the really explicit tragedy which, in my eyes, overwhelms the ending of the play. Nothing that's immediately "wrong" in a way that other plays will hook audiences in a game of identifying what kind of world we are operating in. They're home alone in Feltham with their dog Taliban playing PlayStation, streaming porn, watching the world go by.
Was ultimately disappointed by where the play ended - but I was excited by the first seven scenes before the turn into crisis. Jordan, Anna, (Anna Ruth,) Summary 'Yen explores a childhood lived without boundaries and the consequences of being forced to grow up on your own.
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