A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun
„Faith, Hope and Charity“ by Alexander Zeldin at Grand Theatre
Closing Alexander Zeldin’s Inequalities Trilogy, „Faith, Hope and Charity” is a poignant play about a community house struggling to survive in the context of an ongoing gentrification. Its portrayal of marginal existences is as touching as it is precise, its low-key social realism being transcended by careful character writing and great acting.
Hazel (Llewella Gideon) serves food for those in need in a run-down community centre Foto: Maxime Bruno
Picture a run-down house at the edge of town – the sort of place developers circle around like hyenas, waiting for it to be torn down, overwriting its past with overpriced apartments, embedding its destiny in the big and ineluctable movement towards a gentrified world, erasing the city’s memories, pretending the community of people in need who called this place home never existed.
