Sunday, February 26, 2017

The Homosexuals, or 'Faggots' (Malthouse)

Explicitly - or, at least, metatextually explicitly - a farce while at the same time sharply satirical, the elements of the two forms constantly both in play so that the physical and verbal comedy are never separable from the implicit commentary (which is scathing in basically every direction that it looks - if there's a message or moral, it's probably something like the play's final line: whether because of privilege in any of its many forms or through exaggerated identity politics, don't be awful), not least because so much of it is so ridiculously 'non politically correct'. This one didn't strike me as much as the others of Declan Greene's that I've seen in the past but still, it was great, barbed fun.

(w/ Meribah and Tamara - from the front row no less)