Old Richmond Power Station, Rising festivalCentred in a big muddy pit, this immersive theatre show is wearingly undergraduate, simultaneously abstruse and obvious about too much at once
The new venue is certainly a fascinating liminal space for a performance of this kind. Built in 1891 and decommissioned in 1976, it was redeveloped in the Kennett era as a corporate space and stands now as a grand, ruinous emblem of soulless privatisation. Naomi Milgrom is about to redevelop it again as a major arts space, but in the meantime she has generously handed it over to Woods and his team of artists to soil and besmirch as they see fit.
‘Unfortunately, like everything in This, the gags outstay their welcome and become increasingly tedious.’This begins in the theatre foyer, with a string trio playing pleasantly above us and the various officials buzzing around officiously. We can tell they’re cast members by the overacting in their hushed conversations, and this faux-corporate parade eventually coalesces into a series of speeches satirising the uneasy relationship between art and money.
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