Paul Levy talks to Matt Devitt about East

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paul Levy talks to Matt Devitt about Snowdrop Productions‘ version of Steven Berkoff’s East.

1970’s London. Mike, Les and Sylv are fighting for their youth. Filling their days with sex and violence, they battle both the boredom they fear and the inevitable future they see in their parents, ultimately finding that history is doomed to repeat itself.

Berkoff’s roller-coasting invention of poetic violence, excitement and boundless vitality hones in on the lives and loves of the underclasses and the spiked social injustices which continue to divide the have and have-nots, consigning the poorest to invisibility until they explode in rage.

I’m not sure that there is to talk about, says Matt at the beginning of our interview. Nearly forty minutes later, I press stop.

Paul Levy talks to Matt Devitt about East