Annegret: A post-structuralist walks into a theatre, picks up the flyer for Ridiculusmus’ new piece, studies it and then leaves again. He only watches plays by dead authors. Seriously though, can we talk meta? Your review mentions “meta-theatrical narrative and structure”, “feedback loops” and “meta-layers”? I think Catherine Love had a point in her look at the […]
Category archives: Reviews
The World Mouse Plague
An old lady is about to be evicted from her home because an artist is doing an important site-specific response piece in the building. “Social cleansing under the cover of art”, she calls it and then a guy in a cat costume walks on and snarls at the audience. To call Ridiculusmus’ show The World […]
Electra
She can no longer stomach the size of her sorrow, Electra says, but neither can the others at Aegisthus’ court. Her mother, her sister and the chorus, all want her to stop lamenting Agamemnon’s death. Her father, killed years ago by her mother Clytemnestra and step father Aegisthus, hovers over Electra as a soul-sucking memory […]
Shoot, I Didn’t Mean That / The Last Days of Mankind
Karl Kraus was one of the most acutely-observing writers in the German language and Time Zone Theatre now presents the epilogue of Kraus’ epic piece The Last Days of Mankind: The Last Night in a new translation by Edward Timms and Fred Bridgham. Together with Shoot, I Didn’t Mean That, a piece of new writing […]