Thursday, October 16, 2008

Amen ** (2 stars) Fotis Nikolaou

Reviewed on Monday 13 of October

The first image that appears in my mind when I remember this show is a sandwich made with very tasty gourmet bread cut in half and spread with a bit of mayo (I hate mayo). This show could be dissected and left over with the beginning and the end and throw away almost everything in between, but wait, let me think, then you would not have a show!

Six dancers all of them very good, 2 actors one of the most horrible ones I’ve seen (take your earplugs if you appreciate your ability to hear) and a little person witch is neither one or the other, but with a lot of charisma in her self. The choreography by moments seems to be inexistent and the performers look like they where improvising, the music is heavy, tedious and repetitive without a reason for it; witch gives to the whole performance a very pretentious look.

Didn’t understand a thing. The set is a sort of clothing warehouse and the worst part of it is that you can not comfortably sleep it off because there are only three rows of chairs and the performers are right in front of you.

Has all of the poetic clichés that could be used in a show, a music box, and music coming from some old transistors, etc. Things that we have seen used on stage millions of times and in a more clever way.

To wrap it up, there are not a lot of things to be said. Its not a hit its not a miss but somewhere in between.

Go at your own risk, maybe you like mayo…

10 -18 Οκτωβρίου 2008

Ώρα 21:00
Θέατρο Θησείον

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