If watching two grown men roll around in a pool of strong smelling vinegar is your thing, you’ll probably love this production, but for the rest of you, I guarantee a coughing fit. A silent show with a rather interesting stage set up, the play consisted of the hero and his alter-ego moving around to strange music and competing with each other to find the most ludicrous way to write ‘Jose’ and ‘Carmen’ on the stage (in whipped cream, in wine, on their naked body parts…). For admirers of Merime’s text or for the more arty and cultured types out there, this is probably a masterpiece, but for someone like me, it was simply disturbing. Still, quite unforgettable.
Assembly Roxy, 5-27 Aug (not 13, 20), 6.pm.
tw rating 2/5 | [Lauren Houghton]
Sections: by Lauren Houghton - ED2012 Theatre Reviews - tw rating 2/5 | Tags: AKHE - Russian Engineering Theatre, Assembly
  |
Also from ThreeWeeks...
ED2011 Theatre Review: Wonder Bread (Russian Arts Theatre & Studio)
I’m pleased to report that Danusia Trevino can sing excellently in Polish, English and Gibberish, and ‘Wonder Bread’ is packed full of songs, which is fitting for a show from...
ED2011 Theatre Review: Festive Season (St Edward’s School)
A pair of brothers who make your skin crawl and – well, just who exactly are They? In this intensely acted play, two brothers, each very dependent and rather jealous,...
ED2011 Theatre Review: Penny Dreadful’s Etherdome (Penny Dreadful & Richard Jordan Productions Ltd In Association With Assembly)
Macabre, raucous, foul, romping hilarity mixed with bluegrass – a stupidly terrific masterpiece. This show has everything, tantalising the audience with evil laughter, fake blood and body parts flying around...
|
|
