Greek tragedy finds new life as a bloody and brilliant modern murder mystery with David Morrissey
8 / 10
Stone's scenes are thickly written and disorientating, making the audience battle to work out the ties between the large, bickering family on stage. No one acts as you'd expect them to: there are incestuous caresses and uneasy cruelties. This wealthy clan's language is psychological violence, long before the first physical blows land. When the invitable blood does start to fall, designer Lizzie Clachan's masterpiece of a set comes into its own. This precisely-imagined cube contains a whole house on two floors. At heightened moments it slowly revolves so that we can glimpse dagger-wielding murders or red-stained victims as they run through this perfect doll's house world, filling it with horror.
