London Road
This is a revival of the 2011 play about the impact of a series of real life murders by a serial killer in Ipswich during 2006-7. The play opens with a 'Community in Bloom' competition in London Road including a visit from the mayor. During the first half of the play the narrative focuses on the nervousness and suspicion in the road in the wake of five murders of women working as prostitutes in the London Road area and the arrest of a neighbour also living on the road. I found this part quite frustrating as the voices were mainly of the residents, who are scared, suspicious of each other, but also pleased that the police are now taking an interest and that there is no longer prostitution in the area. There's a glaring silence where the voices of the women are missing during that first half. In the second half though, along with an excruciatingly long silence to focus on the women victims (the play just stops) we then get some voices of the women, or at least those who ...