Killer by Phillip Ridley - Shoreditch town hall
Feb 22, 2017 22:00:35 GMT
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Post by paplazaroo on Feb 22, 2017 22:00:35 GMT
I saw the first preview of this tonight. It's 3 monologues delivered through a trendy binaural microphone much like the one used in Complicite's the Encounter.
You sit in the dark in a room for the first monologue then move to a different room to sit in the dark for the second and then you get to stand in a room in the dark for the last one.
Mostly it's just the audio, in number 2 there's some lights coming on occasionally and during number 3 you do get to see John Macmillan for 5 minutes at the end.
The monologues themselves don't seem linked and are Ridley at his most allegorical/abstract. Apocalyptic tales, a boy who joins a gang, a dowdy guy who looks after an old lady who becomes under siege from people growing sledgehammers from their hands and an ostrich farmer with a miracle healing ostrich on the run from a bad man.
As you walk out you can see the havoc the actor has wreaked around the microphone breaking melons etc like a foley artist which just makes you more annoyed that you didn't get to see any of it. I think I'd rather have listened to it in the dark in my bedroom rather than schlep to Shoreditch for the pleasure.
Overall despite it being a nice walk through the mood lit underbelly of the town hall it's a bit of an underwhelming experience
You sit in the dark in a room for the first monologue then move to a different room to sit in the dark for the second and then you get to stand in a room in the dark for the last one.
Mostly it's just the audio, in number 2 there's some lights coming on occasionally and during number 3 you do get to see John Macmillan for 5 minutes at the end.
The monologues themselves don't seem linked and are Ridley at his most allegorical/abstract. Apocalyptic tales, a boy who joins a gang, a dowdy guy who looks after an old lady who becomes under siege from people growing sledgehammers from their hands and an ostrich farmer with a miracle healing ostrich on the run from a bad man.
As you walk out you can see the havoc the actor has wreaked around the microphone breaking melons etc like a foley artist which just makes you more annoyed that you didn't get to see any of it. I think I'd rather have listened to it in the dark in my bedroom rather than schlep to Shoreditch for the pleasure.
Overall despite it being a nice walk through the mood lit underbelly of the town hall it's a bit of an underwhelming experience
