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SPITFIRE COMPANY: The end of man
The performance is in English.
Two Russian artists in exile reveal the cruelty of Soviet life with a good dose of dark humour. The award-winning Spitfire return to Edinburgh with a project influenced by the books of Nobel Prize laureate Svetlana Alexievich. Chilling jokes, the absurdity of the situation, and efforts at trivialisation are the key features of a production built on the testimonies of witnesses of wars, the Chernobyl disaster and the collapse of the USSR. Live cinema employing puppet animation and starring food, inspired by works of Jan Švankmajer, provides fitting stylisation.
A multigenre project about the power of the powerless influenced by the books of Světlana Alexejovič, who won the Novel Prize for literature.
The performance received one of the main First Awards at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival or four-star reviews from leading British newspapers and magazines, such as The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Scotsman, The List, Daily Mail.
“The more their jokes about Chernobyl victims get lost in translation, the more disturbing reality seems…The dark and surreal menu features ice cube soldiers, blood-red caviar, spray-panited tans and human hair.” The Guardian.
“A dark performance using the words of a Belarusian journalist shows what being trapped by a totalitarian regime can really mean.”