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Irish stage and screen actor Cillian Murphy, gives a riveting performance in Enda Walsh’s theatrical adaptation of Max Porter’s multi-award winning novel Grief is the Thing with Feathers, which makes its UK premiere in the Barbican Theatre. This heart-wrenching meditation on love, loss and living is produced by Wayward Productions in association with Complicité and co-produced by the Barbican.
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It is accomplished and deliberately artful, but strangely distancing
At times, the inventiveness of Porter's words and the sheer hugeness of the staging bombards you into submission
Murphy's undeniable star power certainly comes second place to his mesmerising skills in this razor-sharp production
Murphy has an astonishing athleticism playing both man and crow in an adaptation of Max Porter’s story of grief
Murphy plays a blinder in jarring tale of despair
A brilliant, painful performance from Cillian Murphy
Cillian Murphy is phenomenal as a grieving dad in Enda Walsh’s devastating and disorientating adaptation of Max Porter’s novel
Cillian Murphy probes depths of sorrow in visually bold show
Cillian Murphy helps this strange meditation on loss take wing
Enda Walsh’s scratchy, crow-filled exploration of mourning
It’s not perfect, but it’s experimental and viscerally gripping theatre
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