Spellbinding Clarity and Intricacy: Last Rites Review : The Indiependent

Spellbinding Clarity and Intricacy: Last Rites Review : The Indiependent

Last Rites is a physical and non-verbal storytelling show celebrating the transformative power of grief and parenthood.

Review: ‘Last Rites’ at Bristol Old Vic

Words by India Farnham How do you say goodbye to someone who never truly understood you?Immediately after arriving in India and just moments into Ramesh Meyyappan and George Mann’s Last Rites, Arjun, the show’s main character, is confronted with his late father’s body.   In a dark room, amid a heavy, immovable silence, we watch as Arjun comes face-to-face with the tension that divided him and his father both in life, and now, in death. His fathe…