Showing @ Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh until Mon 26 Aug @ 19:10
Personality is a nebulous, pluripotent concept. What appears to the world as a clearly defined and permanent image of the self can be little more than a façade. We spend lifetimes trying to construct our ideal ego, wouldn’t it be much easier just to pick one already made?
Kubrick3 is total theatre company PIT‘s latest production about a nobody (known to some as Alan Conway) who one day decides to be a somebody – that somebody being Academy Award winning director, Stanley Kubrick. Based on true events, the story is told by a five strong cast with a soundtrack from some of Kubrick’s most famous films.
The most striking feature of this production is the intricacy of its direction. The performers’ movements are almost balletic as they narrate Conway’s remarkable life, all but one playing Conway similtaneously. When another character is needed, the actors simply play Conway playing the character. This, along with the romantic irony of referencing the play they are performing, creates a metatheatre which perfectly reflects the artificiality of the persona. The sheer theatricality and imagination of the piece, along with a dark and very funny sense of humour, make Kubrick3 performance at its purest.