PRAGUE YOUTH
THEATRE DIARY
25 MAY 2019
HANNAHTREHARNE
“I needed a good twenty minutes after the show to actually process what I had seen… YOU MIGHT JUST LOVE IT”
REVIEW
COLD WAR
DIVADLO INPIRACE, PRAGUE
The weirdest show of the evening was definitely Doppelgangsters: Cold War.
It consists of two men with two microphones, having a conversation at lightning speed, jumping from topic to topic. Between breaks, the room darkens and they sing/shout loudly. The lights go from dark, to incredibly bright to the point where I had to shield my eyes. The music and dialogue is also deafeningly loud. It’s a sensory overload, and I would recommend sitting further back.
The conversation is reminiscent of one you might overhear and be unable not to eavesdrop. The kind with questions about greatest fears, the apocalypse and vulnerabilities. The show is so quick and so full of ideas that if you take a minute to absorb it, you lose pieces of text. It’s good that there is no narrative thread to follow, or you would quickly be lost.
I needed a good twenty minutes after the show to actually process what I had seen. I think one needs to be open to an experience of theatre that is abstract and daring to enjoy this. If you are open to this strange sensory overload, then you just might love it.