Fabrication - (Affabulazione)
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To: Saturday, 4 December 2010
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Synopsis
Passionate, extreme and provocative, Fabrication is a taboo-breaking play about the relationship between fathers and sons. A powerful Milanese Industrialist suffers a nervous breakdown, abandons his work and becomes obsessed by his teenage son. Written in blank verse, the play begins with an address by the Ghost of Sophocles and is an inversion of the Oedipus myth.
Our Review:
12 November 2010
In the dark before the curtains are raised the soothing voice of Sophocles tells us that we are to prepare ourselves for some poetry; it will be hard, but all we need to do to enjoy it, is to ‘adjust to its frequency’. No wiser piece of advice could be given, when heading into Pier Paolo Pasolini’s elegiac tragedy. Fabrication is a beautiful piece of work but it definitely takes time to sink into Pasolini’s baroque style.
A darkly woven tale of self proclaimed regicide, Fabrication charts the disintegration of a father whose relationship with his son is poisoned by the tormented memories of an ominous dream.
It is undoubtedly a daunting play in which long image heavy monologues mingle with snatches of normal conversation that perpetually teeter on the surreal. But Lucy Bailey’s complex production more than matches this densely layered text, fully committing to both the most poignant and ridic...
Creative
Pier Paolo Pasolini (Author)
Jamie McKendrick (Translation)
The Print Room (Producer)
Lucy Bailey (Director)
Mike Britton (Design)
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