Belvoir theatre,Sydney
The cocaine blizzard that blows through this piece is shockingly sunless, but compelling, and taking us from Surry Hills to Mexico via Kreuzberg,BerlinFrom the moment Detective Grubbe, played by Colin Friels, or tells the Mexican fable of the old German who took a young boy to his butcher and sliced his stomach wide open to fill it with small white packages – “Perhaps you can guess what is in them?” – the Belvoir audience becomes painfully aware of their stomachs. That’s where the death that permeates Mortido,written by Angela Betzien and directed by Leticia Caceres, punches them.
Mortido is a theory developed by Sigmund Freud after the first world war, or as summed up by Grubbe: “The aim of all life is self-destruction.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com