This is a violently powerful piece about John F Kennedy's sister, who was kept firmly out of the public eye and subjected to a lobotomy aged 23
Jones’ signature clean lines and monochromes creates a dispassionate, arms-length sort of frame for the action, which plays out in a space that’s part lab and part lecture-theatre – filing cabinets rising skywards, screens and pedestals shifting to conceal or display.Musically, this could almost be a song-cycle – a series of linked episodes which make extraordinary demands of the outstanding Ni Fhearraigh as they lurch from chant-like calm to manic, jagged scribbles of sound.
Fergus Sheill conducts a reduced NI Opera Orchestra, while Irvine himself directs a second, improvising, ensemble. The collision between the two is electric – unpredictable and bold. Irvine and Jones are less interested in a biography than a plunge into Rosemary’s mind and the world which made her what she became: a world of male authority and female subordination, a world chasing “perfection”, hiding away difference as shameful and immoral.
There’s no sentimentality here, just a fierce, cold rage, and beneath it a humanity that refuses to be denied. It’s not an easy hour, but God it’s a good one.
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