MAD Forest begins and ends with shouting. First, an unquestioning Communist crowd stands and stamps, cheering Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.

At the finale, the scene is more akin to a tower of Babel, liberated voices bursting with family argument and differing viewpoints: the essence of freedom of speech.

In between, comes the Romanian Revolution, that Christmas Day in 1989 when Ceausescu and his wife were executed on national television. Set before, during and post the revolution, Caryl Churchill's political drama from 1990 is not so much a combination as a collision of realism and surrealism, text from actual interviews and the playwright's stories of two families interconnected by wedding engagements.

Director Mary Luckhurst calls it "dazzlingly adventurous", and her production seeks to follow suit.

University of York company Out Of The Blue takes the multi-media route, using authentic film footage assembled by Nik Morris, together with choreographed movement, vigorous Romanian circle dancing, music by Paul Abbott and songs sung evocatively by Omar Sharyar.

Initially, the production is hampered by Churchill's vignette structure that requires the constant movement of chairs and tables. However, the cast finds its rhythm in Part Two, when the blow-by-blow story of the revolution is told through individual testimonies and no furniture moving stems the flow.

Out Of The Blue's actors are drawn from the English department's drama initiative, wherein the emphasis rests on the relationship between text and performance. It shows. The company brings full expression to these harrowing tales of liberation yet confusion, rumour, recrimination and conspiracy theory.

Part Three returns to a more experimental form of clashing styles, heralded by Ceausescu's satirical depiction as a vampire. The interplay reaches a furious climax, with Rebecca Morgan, Marcus Emerton and the multiple role-playing Matt Springett particularly impressive.

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