Jo Clifford: Every One

[Shana A]

Jo Clifford: Every One

    * Source: The List (Issue 652)
    * Date: 19 March 2010

http://www.list.co.uk/article/24370-jo-clifford-every-one/

Since the mid 1980s, with Losing Venice, a wild and passionate condemnation of colonialism, the work of Jo Clifford has received international acclaim. She remained for many years a dramatist as frequently performed overseas as in Scotland before Mark Thomson brought her work home with a series of premieres at the Royal Lyceum. Her adaptations of Anna Karenina and Faust left Lyceum audiences mystified that the rest of Scotland has seen so little of her work over the last decade.

The hallmark of Clifford's work is courage. Politically critical, formally experimental and warmly humane, Clifford's work challenges audiences, but charms them too, with its sometimes rambunctious humour.