Seven decades since the black magic and white-collars of Brecht’s ‘Mr Puntila and his Man Matti’ first combined, and across from the Coke Sign in Kings Cross, they as potent as ever.
PUNTILA
/ MATTI
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank
than by holding up a clerk.
– Bertolt Brecht
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This electrifying, breakneck odyssey of hate from Doppelgangster (UK/AUS) – world leaders in iconoclastic, political performance – leaves Brecht’s Epic of corporate greed dead and buried.
Sacrificing their own humanity at the stage’s edge Welsh Academic Dr Tom Payne’s and Tobias Manderson-Galvin’s hypnotic and darkly-comic performance work makes Brian de Palma seem banal, Die Antwoord restrained, and Zizek a philistine.
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Take a class-war battlefield flashback in this brutalist, sadistic, and prophetic spectacle. Feel a cool trail of sweat down your cheek from a vicious score by Jules Pascoe, and get shockingly intimate with one of the most phenomenal live performance companies in action.
COMPANY
Concept+Text
TOBIAS MANDERSON-GALVIN
after
BERTHOLD BRECHT
after HELLA WUOLIJOKI
Direction
TOBIAS MANDERSON GALVIN
Performance
TOBIAS MANDERSON-GALVIN, GRACE LAUER,
Guest Performance
ANTOINETTE BARBOUTTIS
Dramaturgy
DR TOM PAYNE,
KERITH MANDERSON-GALVIN
Composition
JULES PASCOE
Scenographic Design
ANTOINETTE BARBOUTTIS
Photography
SHAN SONG LIEW
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A DOPPELGANGSTER production.
With thanks to all the staff at KINGS CROSS THEATRE, BAKEHOUSE THEATRE, and MKA THEATRE OF NEW WRITING.
SEASON
Kings Cross Theatre / KXT
Sydney, 2017
AWARDS
SYDNEY THEATRE AWARDS
NOMINATIONS
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Tobias Manderson-Galvin
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Antoinette Barbouttis
Warnings
Strictly for audiences 18+.
Not that we’re checking IDs.
Ok let’s say ‘mature’ audiences.
How would we assess that?
Contains adult content, adults, and content.
Puntilla/Matti takes place in a theatre.
“BRECHT WOULD BE UNIMPRESSED.”
– Stage Whispers
“WILDLY EXPERIMENTAL AND WILDLY ENTERTAINING”
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– Daily Review
“AWKWARD, PERPLEXING, EVEN DISTRESSING… SENSATIONS INHERENT IN ANY TRUE AND RADICAL EMANCIPATION.”
– SuzyGoesSee
“IT’S CONFRONTING, AGGRESSIVE AND BLEAK. IT’S ALSO HILARIOUS AND WITTY AS HELL.”
– WeekendNotes
“CHAOTICALLY FUNNY. VISCERALLY FUNNY. DEDICATED TO ENTERTAINMENT AND SUBVERSION.”
– EightNightsAWeek
“IT’S DIFFERENT. IT’S FUNNY. IT’S WILFULLY INTELLIGENT. IT’S FURIOUS ABOUT SOCIAL INEQUITY.”
– CassieTongue.com
“A MARVELLOUS, THRILLING PRODUCTION… AND SO RARE FOR SYDNEY – HIGHLY INTELLECTUALLY CHALLENGING.”
– LisaThatcher.com
“THE FUNNIEST SHOW IN SYDNEY RIGHT NOW, AND CERTAINLY THE RISKIEST.”
– Audrey Journal
“ANTI-THEATRE WITH A DEVILISH COMEDIC TWIST.”
– Sydney Arts Guide
“IT’S NOT FUNNY.”
– AltMedia
“I WANTED TO WALK OUT IN FIVE MINUTES… A MUST SEE.”
– WhatsOnSydney
“VERY WITTY… VERY TRIPPY… ANNOYING.”
– TheBuzz Sydney
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