Sunday, 15 August 2010

Surreal and didactic?

Lorca is dead 
C Soco


Seen on Monday 9th of August 2010

I wasn't such a big fan of Belt-up's Tartuffe last year. As much as I admired the enthusiasm and the energy, I thought it also contributed to a rather messy show. I was therefore slightly apprehensive of what was coming with this new show.

"Lorca is dead" is more traditional: the audience participation is more regimented and the staging and settings of the play more limited. One could argue that there is hardly any point, in that case, to stage it in this way.
For my part, I thought the  story of the surrealist club was nevertheless gripping and it made me want to know more about it.  An enjoyable show, more didactic than surreal but that is not necessarily a bad thing.

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