The Night Heron

Jez Butterworth has created a rare bird, grounded in place and character.

A A A Comments By Juliet Wittman Thursday, Oct 25 2007

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Michael Stricker (left) gets his claws in Mare Trevathan in The Night Heron.

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The tension between the characters' corrupt lives and their yearning for poetry reminds me of Charles Dickens's defense of his portrayal of Nancy in Oliver Twist: "It is emphatically God's truth, for it is the truth. He leaves in such depraved and miserable breasts; the hope yet lingering there; the last fair drop of water at the bottom of the weed-choked well. It involved the best and worst shades of our nature; much of its ugliest hues, and something of its most beautiful; it is a contradiction, an anomaly, an apparent impossibility; but it is a truth."

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