RECEPTION AT THEATER Georg Kaisers Gas at Moment: Theater

Cecilia Djurberg sees Georg Kaisers Gas reactivated anytime

The Moment Theater was condemned by a forgotten, 100-year-old German play on a gas plant that explodes and causes a major disaster. Georg Kaisers gas was successful when he was appointed in 1918, but became obsolete because of "other disasters," as the theater itself says.

The recovery of this drama works well when the history of the evolution of the world during these centuries is part of the show and that life under the tides of the climate crisis offers a political and metaphorical reading of a social project annihilated . Which, to a certain extent, apologizes for the superfluous prologue that begins the show, where the musicians, dressed in white overalls, spoke of the play called "an ultramodern version of the Wagner ring" to His arrival.

director Andreas Boonstra invited this honor Fredric Thurfjells saxophones to play siegfriedska swords and horns. The choice of the hyperbolic style of play is perhaps also an operational reference, and recalls the time elapsed since the heroic strings, the tense diction, the charter and the soaked eyes have proved modern in the theater.

The set has got reinforced shoes except Joel Dannerup As with her "ultra-modern" rubber soles, she can sneak into silence with critical issues that anticipate the explosion. Ludde Hagberg is in her essence the most stubborn in the role of secretary, to whom we have to ask questions several times, with the voice of higher and higher, like those who wonder about the fact that the world has been for a long time deaf ears. In Gubbäng, we make fun of misery for a moment.

The suit with the dollar pressure plays Eva RexedThe son of the billionaire who owns the book and who, instead of stopping the gain in the pocket, distributes it among the workers. After the explosion, he plans in his colorful sketches to move to more environmentally friendly activities, but he will not be heard. Workers want to continue producing gas and strike to get rid of the engineer (Sara Turpin) who defends his formula and refuses to take responsibility for the blast.

The interpretation is actually smarter than the hard composition succeeds completely. The final act, where the gas plant had to be rebuilt and understood, is the stench. The question of the future remains as open as it is today between us when we see the climate that repeats Ragnarök along with the nickdocks of capitalism that, like the parade of foam rubber barges for business leaders on stage , deny the risks and only think of profit.

November 4, 2018 7:48 p.m.