Mare Rider " review by Andrew Dickson

Arcola, LondonLeyla Nazli's first play, 2007's Silver Birch House, attempted to cram a good chunk of 20th-century Turkish history into a realist family drama. Her new work is both more troubling and more mysterious, a brief but ambitious exploration of the terrors and perils of childbirth. It centres on the Mare Rider, who, according to Turkish mythology, arrives just as a mother is giving birth: a vengeful apparitio…

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