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13-10-2008 11:30
I saw the play and thought it was fantastic; I recommend the play. I was surprised on getting home and going online that Hallet at the SMH and The Australian reviewer panned it. I too heard grumblings at the half time and saw people leave. The fellow behind me said to his friends "Where's the drama?"
Mr Tiewe is the first reviewer I have read that seems to have grappled with the Brechtian-styled basis of this play; its "metatheatricality", its self-referencing, the playfulness with history and of course the cross disciplinarity of the music, clowning and dance.
The show "distances" the characters and the drama so that the characters may become caricatures or concepts. MacHeath for example becomes the outlaw, the hero who thumbs his nose at the law for the sake of freedom. The fellow behind me wanted melodrama not drama, and the play offers many interesting ethical questions to do with the law, morality, and love all set, like we are, on a ship of fools.
In agreement with Mr Tiewe (and in disagreement with alot of other reviews) this show is very good.
