by Anthony Weigh based on Jean Anouilh's Le Voyageur sans Bagage
seen at the Donmar Warehouse on 26 March 2016
The play, directed by Blanche McIntyre, is an adaptation of Jean Anouilh's 1937 play concerning a returned soldier with amnesia. Anthony Weigh has reset it in the USA in the 1950s so that 'Gene' (Rory Keenan) has returned from the Second rather than the First World War. His blank state allows the people around him to reveal all sorts of secrets, prejudices and idiosyncrasies; in the end he manages to deploy some native cunning to escape from a less than ideal predicament.
