David's Night, by Abigail Assor: a twin who goes off the rails

Violence of gestures, words, attitudes. This text is written on the edge of a tension that is crescendoing so much that it could easily shift into the register of the thriller. Cruelty takes shape, takes shape, swells monstrously, and settles in never to disappear until the end. An ending that leaves us groggy after so much ferocity and intra-family failures.

But who is most dysfunctional in this story which traces the first ten years of Olive and David? Is it the mismatched but fusional pair formed by the twins? David, the clumsy one, the unloved one, the weird one compared to Olive, so wise, so obedient, so pretty with her dance tutu and her red hair like their lovely mother. Is it this one, an all-powerful but broken, overwhelmed mother? By her career as an actress sacrificed to bury herself in the countryside and raise her children.

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