In the Republic of Happiness
From: Thursday, 6th December 2012
To: Saturday, 19 January 2013
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Synopsis
- What're you doing here Robert? - Well to be frank with you, I've really no idea. I thought I would just suddenly appear, so I did. I suddenly appeared. A family Christmas is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Uncle Bob. Who is he? Why has he come? Why does his wife stay out in the car? And what is the meaning of his long and outrageous message? All we can be sure of is that the world will never be the same again. A violent satire, In the Republic of Happiness is a provocative roll-call of contemporary obsessions.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 14 December 2012
Dominic Cooke has brought his five-year tenure at the Royal Court to a resounding conclusion this year with an exceptional run of plays in both auditoria, and Martin Crimp’s In the Republic of Happiness - who'd have thought it? - is the cherry on the cake.
Structurally unlike anything else he has written, it’s funny, sexy, witty and rude, and performed in bright light with some terrific songs. Crimp goes so far as to call it “an entertainment in three parts,” and it rocks along like a dystopian vaudeville conceived in an unlikely alliance of Alan Ayckbourn, Harold Pinter and Caryl Churchill.
A family Christmas party is interrupted by Uncle Bob and his wife Madeleine, who hates them all. Granddad spent 40 years in general practice and ten before that in prison. Even an imperfect erection can be useful, he says, defending his interest in pornography.
One of the daughters is pregnant, the other merely spiteful. G...
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Rachel - 14 January 2013:
Utter pretentious drivel – had I not been at the front of the dress circle I would have made a swift exit in part 2. How unnecessary to litter the dialogue with the C word – do writers think this makes the play edgy and cool? If so think again! ...
Cast
Anna Calder-Marshall
Emma Fielding
Seline Hizli
Ellie Kendrick
Stuart McQuarrie
Paul Ready
Michelle Terry
Peter Wight
Creative
Martin Crimp (Author)
Coutts (Corporate Sponsor)
Royal Court (Producer)
Dominic Cooke (Director)
Miriam Buether (Design)
Peter Mumford (Lighting)
Roald van Oosten (Music)
Paul Arditti (Sound)
James Fortune (Musical Director)
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