Noah (Jake Davies) is a politically homeless eco-warrior who is “trying and failing to find his tribe” by decrying Western democracy but condemning the alt-right. So who are the Quilters, then? Proud weirdos, apparently. It’s far removed from the original premise of a play about Ollie, a man who has his identity stolen on the internet, but the deception is rather the point: nothing is as it seems. The alarming details Kirkwood found about a potential cover-up while researching, and her going through “a vulnerable time in her life”, lead her to seek safety in the aforementioned pseudonym. Everything you thought you knew about the deliberately enigmatic production, we soon learn, is a lie.īecause the play itself is actually a different production entirely: Rapture by Lucy Kirkwood – its real title disguised because of its exploration of the (fictional) unexplained deaths of Noah and Celeste Quilter which are suggested to be state-sanctioned. It doesn’t matter if you know the real identity of playwright Dave Davidson before seeing the Royal Court’s mysterious new thriller That Is Not Who I Am.
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