by Zahid Fayyaz
Fresh from a profitable run on the Edinburgh Fringe, Cassie Workman brings her lyrical 55-minute poem to the intimate upstairs area on the Soho Theatre. A spoken-word efficiency of unusual depth, it tells the fictional and fantastical story of the narrator touring again in time to attempt to save Kurt Cobain from committing suicide. It touches on further, extra common themes and points nonetheless, so it isn’t only for the Kurt Cobain followers to take pleasure in.
This is a stark departure from Workman’s regular stand-up comedy performances, and is clearly deeply private. Within this framework of the play, Cassie attracts parallels between her life within the titular Aberdeen, and Cobain’s in Seattle. An absorbing tour of Cobain’s iconic life and tragic demise commences. The present is transferring and at occasions witty, and with some theatrical thrives in such a involving the lighting which are a shock in such a small venue. The rhymes and iambic pentameter of the textual content’s rhythm actually work to showcase the poetry within the piece. Some of the extra intense descriptive passages are arduous to observe, particularly once they describe Kurt’s suicide and demise.
Ending with portion of the viewers wiping a tear away, it is a beautiful and worthwhile manufacturing coping with tough but vital subjects. Hopefully it’s a present which has a robust future and lengthy life forward of it.
Cassie Workman: Aberdeen runs via 16 December.
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