{"id":11380,"date":"2020-02-24T15:26:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T15:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laughfrodisiac.com\/?p=11380"},"modified":"2020-06-08T22:10:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T22:10:58","slug":"the-rage-of-narcissus-provocative-disturbing-new-work-at-the-pleasance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laughfrodisiac.com\/2020\/02\/24\/the-rage-of-narcissus-provocative-disturbing-new-work-at-the-pleasance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rage of Narcissus: Provocative & Disturbing New Work at the Pleasance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
With all the theatre we see (it\u2019s a lot), there are only a few times when all we can say to each other at the end of a show is \u2018well, shit.\u2019 But that\u2019s exactly what we said after the new production of The Rage of Narcissus<\/em> by Sergio Blanco, a thrilling, frightening, too gory, captivating performance that\u2019s powerful in its elusiveness and its vague metaphors but also will leave you thinking wait\u2026what? and HOW? The dreamy abstractions were somehow effective in making us feel what we were supposed to feel (horrified?) while simultaneously being unclear in what exactly they were and why. The show is a hazy whirlwind that mixes reality and fantasy and fiction and biography into a cautionary tale of some sort. However, what it\u2019s cautioning against is unclear, partly in the good artsy way and partly in a bit of an unsatisfying way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n