With its ticking clock, and mix of private agony and grand themes, the case of Alexander Litvinenko was inherently theatrical
in a hospital bed, dying. But in his final days, he helps unravel his own murder; the solution links his grim fate to a lurid world of violence and corruption. . Now, in “A Very Expensive Poison”, it has been ingeniously reimagined on the stage of the Old Vic in London.
“A Very Expensive Poison” weaves a moving portrait of a marriage—“You’re in a bad mood because you’re hungry,” Marina tells Alexander—with self-referential jokes and escalating high-jinks. Berezovsky sings a vaudeville number; the origins of polonium are outlined in verse. The antics are meant “to capture how overwhelming and tonally inconsistent life feels,” the playwright says. “Just like on your social-media feed; a funny cat next to a terrorist attack next to a dear friend’s depression.
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