One Man - Tell Tale Heart/Dog
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To: Saturday, 23 April 2011
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14 April 2011
Steven Berkoff’s one-man show is a game of two halves showcasing his virtuosic talent for physical theatre. Without any set or props, he holds the audience’s attention throughout with his strong stage presence, using movement, mime and a wide range of vocal expression and sound effects to portray two violent sociopaths.
Tell Tale Heart is Berkoff’s adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s gothic story about a man with “over-acuteness of the senses” who murders his neighbour because of his “vulture eye” – a sort of “Are you looking at me?” paranoid response taken to extremes. Standing in a circular pool of white light which later changes to blood-red (and occasionally half-ducking into the surrounding darkness), the protagonist becomes increasingly manic as he strives to assert his sanity.
Garbed in an ill-fitting, tie-less three-piece-suit, Berkoff’s red-eyed, sweaty unreliable nar...
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