https://ein-bisschen-schreiben.annegretmarten.co.uk/wp/?p=503 culture journalism, Kritiken zwischen zwei Sprachen Wed, 16 Jul 2014 13:33:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.35 https://ein-bisschen-schreiben.annegretmarten.co.uk/wp/?p=503#comment-3 Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:19:47 +0000 http://annegretmarten.co.uk/?p=503#comment-3 I didn’t think it set out to explore a real world political framework. To me it seemed like a study of how surface and inner (hidden) moral decay interlink. The camera was a device to break up the surface, to go deeper, reveal the “shit”. I think the original play text is ALL politics so I admired the extra spin we got by it being applied to the bourgeois setting. Think of how political personas frame themselves as squeaky clean – so uprooting this and giving us this contrast is a very political angle, I feel. Maybe I’m reading too much into it?
For me the only moment that didn’t work was where Ubu addressed the audience in the banker scene. It didn’t sit quite right within the overall concept but I didn’t mind it much.

]]> https://ein-bisschen-schreiben.annegretmarten.co.uk/wp/?p=503#comment-2 Sun, 22 Jun 2014 11:49:28 +0000 http://annegretmarten.co.uk/?p=503#comment-2 I thought it was a great adaptation but there was not enough political bite and it was not scary enough. And the ending should have been with the teenage son pointing his camera at us, it is a a very poignant moment and breaching the fourth wall at that moment is simply genius because we cannot feel comfortable anymore as an audience. See my review here http://playstosee.com/page.php?sad=play&id=1963 – what do you think?

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