![]() She's living like a gaijin, living like a man. She's breaking every rule in Japan's strictly codified society. With her husband away in China on business, she lets her own place turn into a sty. Maintaining the illusion, she buys him clothes, pays for expensive meals and luxury hotels. She focuses only on the price he thinks about the cost, placing cash in a brown envelope beside the bed where they get together. "It is better to give than to receive," she thinks, reminding herself of her Catholic school's motto, so she 'borrows' money from the boy's uncle's account to pay him through college. Instead she goes with him to cheap hotel room and, perhaps for the first time in her life, takes something she wants.Įverything else seems to spiral from there, but the film's gentle pacing and Rika's generally conscientious nature remind us that in fact she is making a series of calculated decisions and there is never no other choice. She could confront him, this boy half her age. Just how much sacrifice do her bosses expect from her? As it happens, she's rescued by the appearance of the client's nephew (Sôsuke Ikematsu), but later she realises he's following her on the underground. We meet her first in the home of an older client whose questions get very personal, creating an intense sense of threat. She's quiet, demure, respectably dressed, even vulnerable around her clients. Rika (Rie Miyazawa) is not the sort of person you'd associate with criminality. It would seem such a little thing to borrow a bit of the bank's money and pay it back later. Imagine how much stranger that is when you are - in a largely cash-based culture - actually handling their cash, carrying it between their homes and the bank, perhaps stopping off at the shops along the way and having to poke around in your wallet for a few coins to cover the cost of your purchases. To get a ticket for this thrilling theatre experience, visit or call the Box Office on 028 9034 0202.If you've ever worked in the service industry, you've probably experienced that odd sense of dislocation when looking after customers who are, for no clear reason, much better off than you - to the point where they seem completely unaware of issues like making the rent which dominate your life. The piece contains narrative twists and turns, live music, inventive design and physical storytelling to provide a thrilling and terrifying experience.įrom the award-winning team behind ‘The Trench’ which visited Theatre at The Mill in 2013, drama company Les Enfants Terrible have built a formidable reputation for playful macabre tales by mixing drama, music, storytelling and inventive staging to create a gothic fantasies reminiscent of Tim Burton’s works. ![]() Upon seeing her with another man he is thrown into a jealous rage and driven to murder, though all is not what it may at first seem and slowly Ernest’s guilt sends him on a spiralling descent into madness. ![]() ![]() This spine-chilling tale of obsession and murder is inspired by Hitchcock’s masterpieces and the tales of Edgar Allen Poe and is on stage for one night only.Įrnest spends his days watching the beautiful young woman who lives in the apartment opposite. Critically acclaimed play from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, ‘Ernest and The Pale Moon’ awaits audiences at Theatre at The Mill on Thurs 19 June. ![]()
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