theatre of voyeurs

a month since the last post?? strike me off the chartered institute of bloggers! apologies, i have been sick, snowboarding, in san diego, surfing and trying to survive at work...

so, it seems like the Lyric theatre is doing the most exciting stuff around just now (challenging Punchdrunk for the mantle??)

first of all the excellent Metamorphosis, which is fairly standard 19th century Jewish polemic theatre scholck (complete with chewy Czech accents and pigtails) apart from the extraordinary staging of Gregoire's bedroom onto the horizontal axis, where he creeps and swings and rustles like the big human cockroach that he is.

i was trying to realise why this felt so contemporary, when i remembered the Vertical Football campaign that Adidas did to upstage Nike in the last world cup. successfully.

so, if even billboards can have a human actor dimenson added to them, what of theatre, which still survives despite the ravages of hollywood SFX and reality television?

The answer was there being watched as we came out of Kafka - Contains Violence was being acted in the buildings opposite the theatre, while the audience watched through binoculars and listened on headsets. Didn't seem like the most thrilling of plots, but the point was that it was the next thing to step off the stage and into the real world, and that soon i hope people will be looking up at buildings  in the street, fiddling with their itrip's trying to find the secret performance going on around them...