Tell Them I Am Young and Beautiful
From: Tuesday, 6th September 2011
To: Saturday, 8 October 2011
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Synopsis
Greed. Hospitality. Sacrifice. Knowledge. Truth. Freedom. Friendship .Seven words, seven stories, seven moments of theatre played in an empty space like a game, magical and dangerous. Three actors and a musician step onto the stage, bringing with them only what has shocked and touched them, to tell and play angry stories that need to be told now...
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 12 September 2011
Four actors, one musician, six stories and seven bamboo canes: it really is that simple in the small studio at the Arcola, where the basic function of theatre, story-telling, is explored in a series of naïve fables from Japan, Africa, India and Senegal.
After years spent working with Complicité, Peter Brook, Helena Kaut-Howson and the RSC, it seems like another fresh start for Kathryn Hunter and Marcello Magni, those dedicated pranksters of the surreal and the mysterious; and Hunter is thankfully fully recovered from her abortive experience as Cleopatra at the RSC.
She ducks and dives in and out of twisted old crones, various forest animals, village elders and a distraught wife whose husband (Magni) insists on playing dead in order to thwart a commercial rival even as they lay him in the grave.
Magni, a natural Harlequin, also plays an old farmer whose cows are drying up. Patrice Naimbana, a recent sonorous RSC Othello directed by Hunt...
Creative
Gilles Aufray (Author)
KP Productions (Producer)
Marcello Magni (Producer)
Marcello Magni (Director)
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