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My overall impression
A powerful biographical performance of a powerful, dangerous, flawed, damaged, ambitious, caring, violent druglord sociopath. Put together in a wonderfully full and quick moving <40 minute solo show, Melina Farahani has composed a piece which establishes the character’s past and motivations so clearly that one doesn’t need to who Griselda is before joining the audience. She’s gone from victim to criminal leader, and, with a feminist bravado, crawls her way from a life of poverty and abuse to seeing herself as something of a Robin Hood—taking full advantage of the human weakness in the desire “to tough heaven”—trying to do some good for women born into similar circumstances. Farahani touches all bases in her portrayal with power, gracefully staged and executed movement, and a full hearted empathy for a woman whose circumstances, as she believed, left her no choice but to do what she felt she had to do. Highly recommended – Richard Lucas, Asylum Judge
