08/11/2006, Blasted by Sarah Kane, Directed by Thomas Ostermeier.Blasted, the notorious play that received the most belligerent reviews after its 1995 London premiere, and is rarely revived, is undoubtfully everlasting. Having as impetus the civil war in Bosnia Kane brings this war into a Leeds hotel room and engages with the absurdity and decadence of war puttting forward questions such as if there is a God and what constitutes human ethics. Cannibalism, sodomism and violation of the body onstage did not affect me as much as the visualisation of the atrocities of war that are narrated by the soldier to Ian; pure sickness and claustrophobia. It rings a bell for all the bestialities we have heard of during the latest wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, former Yugoslavia...
That night a bomb had exploded in our minds and deprived us from the ability to utter a phrase that made sense.
In order to visualise read what my friend Andromeda has written about it.
2 comments:
What a German week this has been... I was actually in the country so I missed this, but I wonder whether not speaking a language helps you to have a somehow deeper connection with a production. A few years back I saw The Country in Vienna before my German had improved. It was a strange experience and words felt even more physical...
To be honest, it didnt make much difference to me, apart from the fact that I had to read the surtitles. I was so into the performance that I felt it was speaking a universal language for me! And its rhythm was really real-life. It gave the play its full potential.
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