Play review - "Wolf Lullaby" by Hilary Bell

This Griffin classic starts with one of the strongest ideas for a play in recent years - child murderers - and it is easily enough to propel a work with weak handling. Bell gives it strong handling, and the result is powerful theatre. Many scenes have you gripped, wondering "what would I do" - such as the parents realising their kid is a killer, and the cop who is hard but not without humanity. Occasional lapses in dialogue - would a working class Tasmanian use the word "anticlimactic" in conversation? And while Bell says she doesn't point any blame, I think she does point some fingers - the killer is from a broken home, both parents working class shift workers. The Wolf device really gives directors something to think about in a way few plays do.