Adelaide Festival: To Be Straight With You, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; and Sacred Monsters
I traveled to Adelaide for part of its International Arts Festival. Two works stood out for me. TO BE STRAIGHT WITH YOU, a production by DV8 Physical Theatre, led BY Lloyd Newson from Great Britain. On every level from the verbatim text, the politics, the skills of the performers (especially in their clarity of storytelling whilst dancing or moving even skipping), the video artists and the exhilarating technology that supported it all, this was great theatre. I often lament that the theatre is too tame and all too often a bourgeois comfort of sedation. It was thrilling to be stirred…