EDINBURGH 2016 - BWW Review: JUST BY ALI SMITH, Assembly George Square Gardens, 15 August
by Amy Hanson
- Aug 16, 2016
Scottish writer Ali Smith is best known for her short stories and novels, including three books shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Her 2005 play for Shell Connections, Just, offers a delightful example of Theatre of the Absurd that certainly deserves to be as well known as her other literary endeavours. In this delicious satire, a young woman discovers a dead body behind a bus stop, stabbed in the back with an umbrella. Moving to take a closer look, she is accosted by a police officer who accuses her of the murder. Soon enough, she is condemned by the local townspeople, and the sinister Mrs Wright, the blindfolded arbiter of justice, as the story begins to take on a darker turn.
