Category: Reviews
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2 stars – interesting text, lacks direction Various episodes of racism are brought together in this fast-paced show involving a young black person born and raised in the South of the US. The characters that surround him, his parents and friends, are brought to life through the narrative: each has a story to tell.
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5 heart-wrenching magic Betún is a child who lives in the street. Like 100 million other children, in the streets he meets adult people. Unlike 100 million other children, his story is sublimated into poetry.
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2 Stars – unfinished work The concept is enthralling: bringing together music, poetry, science, activism, and video art. Sadly, many things didn’t work in this performance, which had been hyped through its presentation and advertising. The show had been announced as a great concert-performance, to be seen in the formal Teatro Astra.
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4 Stars – Dream-like, politic storytelling If you were to dress up like the most meaningful dream you dreamed in the last year, what would you wear? Sole is a cricket and Baleno a pig. In a beautifully poetic atmosphere, the tragic story of two anarchists who stood against TAV* is first evoked, then thoroughly…
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4 Stars – Holy (and unholy) s… From the beginning, scenography and props remind the spectator of the unifying traits that all humanity shares: a WC and some piles of faeces. From the start, a devil introduces a rooted satiric mode on society classes, and the weight they had in history.
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In a dystopic future, social life is organized holding freedom as the highest of values, until there can be no community anymore. There are no impositions, no laws, and no rights, and each person becomes president of a State of their own.
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4 Stars – To get lost, laugh, and mourn at a rhythm An original and contemporary comedy that adheres to reality in the way it feels like a labyrinth. It feels knowable but may not be, it consists of bright areas of fun and enjoyment as well as dim corners where conflicts and sorrows are…
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4 stars – explosive meteors A reassembled family, a ‘home’ that has been put together on the wrong premises. Four children and teenagers, one adult caretaker. In this smothering space, characters are meteors crashing into each other and then trying to avoid destruction, in the varied constellations that prejudices, accusations, recriminations, and pressures can give…
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4 stars – ongoing metamorphosis A carpet extends from a shooting set. White; still, it can’t but remind of the red one Agamemnon stepped on, prepared for him by Clytemnestra, together with her deadly plans. Behind him walked Cassandra, foreseeing the fate that was going to unjustly involve her, too.
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3 stars – intense atmosphere A load of ashes, a she-dog whose howling is amplified and expanded in space. Neon lights flicker; they turn red with the creaking sound of a fire.
