Langham hotel, London
Ben Ellis’s ingenious three-parter, tracing the history of this luxury London abode, tracks power found and lost at a luxury hotel
Ben Ellis’s ingenious three-parter, tracing the history of this luxury London abode, tracks power found and lost at a luxury hotel
This is the second time Defibrillator have taken us on a trip through this luxury London hotel. Last year, they gave us three short plays by Tennessee Williams. Now Ben Ellis has come up with a piece picking out three key moments that mark the building’s 150-year history and deal with power regained, sacrificed and irretrievably lost. It makes for an entertaining, if uneven, construct.
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