Everything I Like

An unlikely Eastern excursion for Bellman. Here she plays a teacher of English as a foreign language, in a strangely compelling chamber piece about a man adrift in his own unsatisfactory life, acted upon (and occasionally active) as he wanders between family and lover, father and frustrated attempts at freedom. The mood is understated and melancholic, the structure one of elliptical character headings and associative incident. Not entirely successful, but it throws its own distinctive light on a particular male crisis of identity.