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.
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.
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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
Kings Cross Theatre
25 Sep – 14 Oct 2017
115 minutes
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.
Puntilla/Matti takes place in a theatre. Enjoy your seat.
There is definitely going to be one of those ticketing booking fees.