Rousey Dek London International Festival of Theatre
By Alastair Macaulay for The Financial Times


Rousey Dek has episodes of rare poetry, so I'm inclined to overlook the fact that it fails in its avowed intention to "throw light on different aspects of modern Cambodian society that are usually hidden". For example, there's one gruesome scene in which a man hides a woman under a cloak and then plunges daggers into her head: in all honesty you'd never know she represents "Cambodian artists forced to perform the bidding of the ones in power".

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