Musik
From: Tuesday, 15th March 2005
To: Saturday, 7 May 2005
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Synopsis
Musik is a brilliant and blistering attack on middle-class hypocrisies by one of Europe's great playwrights.
Our Review:
18 March 2005
Ever since Dominic Dromgoole took command of the Oxford Stage Company, its reach has extended far beyond its Oxford boundaries – and I don't just mean geographically. Dromgoole has taken it into a different dimension, a powerhouse of rejuvenation, dusting off old classics with a freshness and vigour you just wish could be emulated elsewhere.
This new residency at the Arcola, in conjunction with Dumbfounded Theatre company, is typically ambitious.
Kicking off a seven-week German season of three neglected pre-First World War plays under the umbrella title of “The Last Waltz”, Wedekind's Musik, written in 1906, translated and considerably overhauled by Neil Fleming (a version first premiered, in fact, at Plymouth's Theatre Royal five years ago) emerges in Deborah Bruce's sensitive, expressionistic, terrifically acted production as a bracingly modern study of hypocrisy, the bourgeoisie, artistic exploitation with a good old swipe at the press along t...
Creative
Frank Wedekind (Author)
Oxford Stage Company (Company)
Dumbfounded Theatre (Company)
Neil Fleming (Translation)
Neil Fleming (Adaptation)
Deborah Bruce (Director)
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