Confessions, The

by Alexander Zeldin

96 pages, Paperback

Published October 23, 2023

About the author

Alexander Zeldin is a writer and director for theatre. He trained on the Jerwood Young Directors course at The Old Vic and has taken part in residencies at the Egyptian Centre for Culture and Art and at Studio Emad Eddin in Cairo. His critically-acclaimed play, Beyond Caring, which examined the effects of zero hours contracts had its World Premiere at The Yard Theatre in Hackney in 2014, before transferring to the Temporary Theatre at the National Theatre in London in 2015. In 2015, Alex was the recipient of The Quercus Trust Award and was appointed as Associate Director at The Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Beyond Caring toured the UK in 2016 and his play LOVE opened at the National Theatre.

Reviews

[Doug · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've liked Zeldin's previous plays and found them quite innovative and intriguing, his hyper-real social dramas in particular - but this latest one is a head-scratcher. Some individual scenes are interesting, but many more just seem to meander and go nowhere. A disappointment, but apparently it played much better than it reads.

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