Worth a visit this summer, is the production spectacle of Sound & Fury, a London theatre company, who have recreated the story of the doomed Russian submarine Kursk so that the performance is an interactive audience experience.
Throughout the tale the audience is able to experience the sounds and touch the very same sensations of the men as the performance takes place in a large hall made to resemble the submarine so that they feel as if they are along for the suffocating journey of doom as well.
The play follows the basic story of the Russian sub which was pursued on a spying mission until it exploded 200m below sea level with about two dozen of the men surviving in an air pocket that could have been rescued had a British ship not been directed to leave them behind as per Nato’s orders.
Written by playwright Bryony Lavery, the stage, set, and audience seating area of the Young Vic’s Maria studio was created to represent the actual conditions of the dramatic trapped crew and to suggest that there is a link and common ground between the lost Atlantis civilization and the cold war spy missions.
The cast is small, as only five cast members play the crew members that are viewed throughout the play and the careful use of thematic sounds lends its hands to creating a large emotional build up that climax at the end of the play leaving the audience quiet and pensive near the end.
