Echo goes looking for her one-time lover and comrade-in-arms, only to fall into a passionate relationship with his son. But sexual abandon triggers the unravelling of a trauma she has long buried for the sake of her children, which now threatens to tear their lives apart. Can eros bring a healing of trauma, or merely its repetition?
Acting
Jeanne Balibar's raw, unraveling performance.
Direction
Jones builds dread from intimacy, not spectacle.
Director
Gareth Jones
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gareth Jones adapted from his own stage play, explaining the claustrophobic intensity and theatrical dialogue rhythms.
The Welsh setting deliberately contrasts with Echo's cosmopolitan French identity — she's literally foreign to her own buried past.
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