Puntila/Matti
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a clerk. – Bertolt Brecht
It’s 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.
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.
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.
CREDITS
Concept+Text TOBIAS MANDERSON-GALVIN
after BERTHOLD BRECHT after HELLA WUOLIJOKI
Direction TOBIAS MANDERSON GALVIN
Performance TOBIAS MANDERSON-GALVIN, GRACE LAUER,
Guest Performance ANTONIETTE BARBOUTTIS
Dramaturgy DR TOM PAYNE, KERITH MANDERSON-GALVIN
Composition JULES PASCOE
Scenographic Design ANTOINETTE BARBOUTTIS
Photography WILSON LIEW
A DOPPELGANGSTER production.
With Thanks to all the staff at KINGS CROSS THEATRE and MKA THEATRE OF NEW WRITING.
“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
PREMIERE SEASON PARTNERS
R&D
INFORMATION FOR PRESENTERS
Performers | 3
Crew | 0
Duration | 115m, includes 15m interval
Set-Up | Previous or same day set-up and open
Touring Availability | For dates in 2017, or beyond
please contact sayhello@doppelgangster.com
PREMIERE
VENUE
Kings Cross Theatre
DATES
25 Sep – 14 Oct 2017
DURATION
115 minutes
WARNINGS
FIRST WARNING
Strictly for audiences 18+.
Not that we’re checking IDs.
Ok let’s just say ‘mature’ audiences.
How would we even assess that?!
Contains adult content, adults, and content.
SECOND WARNING
Puntilla/Matti takes place in a theatre. Enjoy your seat.
THIRD AND FINAL WARNING
There is definitely going to be one of those ticketing booking fees.
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