My overall impression
Revolutionary Love is an act of love by a committed creative team. Intimate, tender, with moments of passionate potential the show is performed by two actors truly serving the supertask or reason for the play’s existence. A simple staging and design allows for the man and his poetry to be center stage. Unfortunately I knew nothing about Nazim Hikmet and felt like I knew little more after seeing the show. This is not always necessary – I’m not advocating for biopic theatre – but it felt very much that this was the desire of the show’s creator, and so I was left wanting to truly understand a man who wrote some gorgeously inspiring words, words that are necessary now more than ever. “If I don’t burn, if you don’t burn, if we don’t burn, how will the light vanquish the darkness?” For these words alone and the spirit that wants to bring them to life and ignite them in an audience, Revolutionary Love is worth seeing.
