| Lola Brecht by Dic Edwards |
| First presented in 1996 by Castaway Community Theatre |
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synopsis: "Dic Edwards' plays are never easy but lola brecht has some very funny moments, some sharp satire and plenty of evidence of a clever mind at work." The Guardian "A black comedy which points as accusing and bloody finger at sexual frustrations as the root of all evil. As the civil war bubbles outside their hotel, it echoes the conflict inside (Brecht's) head and in his bitching impotent marriage to Lola. .to be congratulated. The Stage "lola brecht is a good play with much to say about modern human frustrationsThere is a delightful dream-scene where Napoleon makes love with Lola and helps her give birth: to an array of weaponry! Excellent. Western Mail "The drama is often eased by comic touches - a wounded Peter realises that he loves ex-nurse Lola "for her nursing skill and knowledge of bandages!" But the underlying threat of excessive nationalism keeps this drama simmering. Dic Edwards has written a thought-provoking script." Cambrian News "lola brecht.is about war but also about peace. The strange state of mesmeric sub-violence we live in. People find no meaning in their lives, objects don't have a function anymore. It's like being in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and trying to find the bottom with your feet. The political leaders are zombies or puppets or clowns or sinister. And we're stranded in a strange hotel by a railway line. The play gives the feel of contemporary life. History strangely confusing, the mysteries of the present are not even intriguing - Kafka would die of boredom. And people's own passions swimming around them like sharks attacking them. And everything as decorous as a shop window. I think the play gets all this.The characters are immediately recognisable and their presence has consequence, they're not arbitrary..It's a strange play: it's like seeing an island of earth floating in the sky. As if the foundations of existence were exposed and as if the earth were trying to hide its nakedness." Edward Bond |
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