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Massage You can listen to Steven being interviewed on Massage.
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Massage (link
is no longer free) John Peter, 24 Aug 1977 This is one of Berkoff's funniest, filthiest and most vitriolic pieces. His satanic majesty, at 60, is in lissom and frisky middle age. He plays a hostess in a massage parlour, grotesquely enticing in well-moulded dress and high heels, regaling you with detailed descriptions of her skills. She is the English lower-class man's dirty postcard made flesh... In private life, she is Mum, sharing a ghastly
lower-middle-class home with Dad (Barry Philips, a
marvellous comedy act); and every now and again their
dialogue flashes with a thick-witted, deadpan viciousness
that would be quite at home in one of Pinter's inspired
revue sketches. |
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Messiah Charles Spenser, 4 Dec 2003 Messiah is
yet another stinker from his ever-prolific pen and a work
in which blasphemy is eclipsed only by banality. |
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Messiah James Inverne, Playbill, 2 Dec 2003
Combining
lyricism and raw physicality. |
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Metamorphosis Mikhail Baryshnikov at the Barrymore Theatre NYC. Photo by Martha Swope.
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Metamorphosis David Anthony Fox, Jun 2000 In
Berkoffs play, the family assumes greater
centrality than in the original. But that too is faithful
to Kafkas theme, for Metamorphosis is also a satire
on middle-class values. The Samsa family, accustomed to
mundane creature comforts provided by their son, now have
not only lost a breadwinner, theyve gained an
obscene, unpresentable pet. What are they to do? |
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Metamorphosis | Metamorphosis
With
eight actors, some scaffolding and three stools, Berkoff
recreates a nightmare world of alienation, a grotesque
pantomime in which the audience witness the
dehumanisation and eventual destruction of Gregor Samsa,
heroically struggling to the last, against greed,
indifference and selfishness. |
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Metamorphosis
(link is down) Sheffield, 2000
The characters of Metamorphosis bear a close
comparison to Kafka´s own family. |
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Metamorphosis (link is down) Richard Gist, 14 Oct 1998 Ayun Fedorcha's lighting provides precise pools where characters step in to deliver themselves or, at times, carefully skirt or circle around. At one ingenious point in the early part of the production a stage hand comes out with a hand-held flood light to cast moving shadows of Gregor as insect on the rear wall. Photo of Delia Taylor as Gregor Samsa by Jim
Tetro. |
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One Man
(Dog, The Tell-tale Heart, Actor) He leans heavily on mime, but he is a whirlwind of various techniques; call him a One Man band. Its impressive that he can play the equivalent of so many instruments, and he certainly makes you listen and watch. Yet, for all of his skill, you are likely to feel more awestruck than moved. |
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