The Man with a Flower in his Mouth
From: Wednesday, 10th November 2010
To: Sunday, 5 December 2010
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Synopsis
The Man with the Flower in his Mouth has become the ultimate compulsive observer of all about him in his sleepy Sicilian town. Once an ordinary enough fellow, because he has been living with a terrible secret, now finds himself pushed to the edge.
Our Review:
11 November 2010
It is close to midnight in a quiet cafe, when a strange man presses his face to the glass, unnerving the woman who sits inside alone, sipping coffee and waiting for the next train. Her life is a procession of banalities, of the ordinary and never-ending trials of family life experienced at a pace which exasperates her. The stranger who she meets has found a new way to view the world, and is clinging desperately, vine-like, to its every detail. This is the setting for Poppy Burton-Morgan’s reimagining of The Man with a Flower in his Mouth, Luigi Pirandello’s one act reflection on mortality and the extraordinary nature of life.
Burton-Morgan has taken considerable liberties with Pirandello’s original, switching the gender of two of its characters and the sexuality of the protagonist. She has also erased the social and class distinctions, and Pirandello’s attack on bourgeois apathy. What remains is a more playful encounter, though fortunately [Samuel Collin...
Cast
Samuel Collings (The Man)
Liana Weafer (The Traveller)
Creative
Luigi Pirandello (Author)
Metta Theatre (in association with Greenwich Theatre) (Company)
Poppy Burton-Morgan (Adaptation)
Poppy Burton-Morgan (Director)
Katharine Heath (Costume)
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