Marking the 10th anniversary of 9/11, Headlong’s director Rupert Gould integrates contributions from 19 writers in a site-specific commemoration, set in a recreation of the ill-fated Windows on the World and accessed via air-port style security.
Scott Ambler’s urgent choreography and the annual meetings of three widows, their black dresses mantled with ash, link the diverse narratives – some with a strong factual element, some fiction - relating to the legacy of the blue-sky morning when the twin towers crumbled.
A swapped day off and an eyewitness account, widespread suspicion of anyone Muslim and a brick through a shop window, a gift shop employee with a 20 per cent score rate with the emotional young women touring Ground Zero are just some of the vignettes (most of them successful) in an engrossing but respectful memorial.
Commodity Quay, St Katharine Docks, E1W 1AZ (020 7452 3000) Tube: Tower Hill (decadeheadlong.com) Until October 15 (£35)
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