"Despite the unrelenting gloom, the show is beautiful to look at, and the performances are uniformly excellent. But Olia, as Mele’s wife, is the standout. We first see her in flight — escaping across a sun-scorched field, her wedding veil streaming behind her. She is a woman stripped of agency yet remains unbowed. By turns vulnerable and steely, Olia shifts fluidly between disbelief, disgust and hard-won joy."