Knock Against My Heart
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- Sun Dec 07 2008
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... Review for: Knock Against My Heart At the Unicorn Theatre on Wednesday 15th October 2008 This hour-long play, written by Oladipo Agboluaje and developed by Theatre Centre in collaboration with the highly acclaimed Brazilian theatre company Nos de Morro, is set in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro is the base for this company, so the play was partly spoken in Portuguese with English translation. Having been told this beforehand, I expected it to be mainly in English but with Shakespearian language as the writer made known that play storyline was drawn form The Tempest. The Unicorn Theatre isn't a very big theatre in terms of size and mainly aims their plays at a younger audience so I thought the storyline would be simple to understand with likable characters and audience interaction. With inspiration from Shakespeare's play The Tempest, Knock Against My Heart focuses on many poignant













