Resurrection Blues

Synopsis

Resurrection Blues, is a satire on the ways that media hype, with official lies, helps to sustain the rule of corrupt government. The play is set in an unnamed Latin American country, where a young revolutionary is captured by the presiding military dictator. General Felix Barriaux seizes the opportunity to improve the country's finances by having the revolutionary executed and selling the television rights.

Our Review:

3 March 2006

“It seems you guys made more progress yesterday when I wasn’t here” iconic Hollywood director Robert Altman tells the Resurrection Blues cast in a rehearsal report published in the Old Vic programme. By the end of a surprisingly shaky evening, I was beginning to wonder if wise old Altman really ought to have gone the distance and abandoned his actors to get on with making the most of this messy satire on the loss of faith in an age of mediocre mass media morality, eventually completed by Miller just one month before he died.

No one can deny that Kevin Spacey’s Old Vic has given this final statement by one of the giants of 20th-century drama its best shot. When you’ve assembled the likes of Neve Campbell, Jane Adams, James Fox, Matthew Modine and Maximilian Schell, put them to work on an ingenious bunker-like set created by old Broadway hand Robin Wagner, and then invited Altman on board, sparks of creativity really ought to be flying all over ...

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212.18.245.236) - 12 April 2006:

Even the ushers looked embarrassed. Fox was terrible but agree with another reviewer that his speech about life and feelings etc in the second half had some very good lines. |Above all, it really made me reflect on the experience of theatre and how something which is usually uplifting can leave you very deflated if done badly. ...

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