Havel’s The Memorandum a success in Edinburgh


As previously reported in this newsletter, the well known Scottish theatre company Communicado produced Havel's The Memorandum. Jan Natanson wrote about this month's opening on the website EdinburghGuide.com: „From the very start we are moving in the grey world of bureaucracy. But it is not the drab grey of the Eastern Block. The monochrome has its cool elegance. The theme of the play set in an office of a big corporation is topical even now. Implementing a funny, complicated language into the office practice becomes a starting point for examination of petty power plays and absurdity born continuously out of the bureaucracy. (...) The actors act well - it is an exact physical theatre production - without covering the intelligent text exploring the deep problem of the power, language and manipulation. Paul Morrow and Graham Crammond as the scheming deputy and his silent side-kick are a masterful double-act. We will find wonderful blasts of surrealism and brilliant humor, but the play as a whole is not a comedy that would make us fall over laughing. It's much more contained and calmer comedy than was perhaps expected by many in the audience."

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