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La Reprise: Histoire(s) du theatre (1)
The Lyceum Theatre
Edinburgh
★★★★
If the subtitle of this Belgium import does not make you pause, then to know that it is the product of Milo Rau’s international Institute of Political Murder could turn away many a theatre enthusiast. This is, however, the Edinburgh Festival part of its intention being to introduce the new, even the provocative.
Theatre has always engaged with reality but modern theatre from Brecht and Becket has self-consciously examined how the mechanics of the art work.
Milo Rau’s ambitious Ghent Manifesto sets out the rules by which he hopes to break through the artifice of the stage to “make the representation itself real.”
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