Caligari
SUSU Theatre Group University Of Southampton (Highfield Campus), Southampton David A Putley 14 June 2025 It was quite a privilege to be invited to see this production before it hurtles its way to Edinburgh as part of the usual Fringe Festival later this year. Directors Lily Akers and Kat Fevyer have managed to fuse modern storytelling, very much in the vein of Constellations, for instance with Victorian Music Hall melodrama complete with a mad laughing villain (or is he?). The play is based on the 1920s German silent film, The Cabinet Of Caligari, set in post-war Weimar (or is it?)
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