Written more than 100 years ago, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is a tale of lies and brutal greed and of the dark heart which beats within us all. This bold re-telling is a visually rich, multi-layered work which fuses live performance with digital technology. Read more …
Now re-sited in a forsaken Europe, in a world which echoes Apocalypse Now, what emerges is a tale absolutely for our time. The performers enter the stage, into uncharted territory and the story unfolds like an animated Cinemascope graphic novel on the hanging projections screens above their heads.
The heart of darkness must be found. The story is impossible to tell, but it must be told.
Heart of Darkness is a spectacular and difficult work about, well, a spectacular and difficult work. Many people will go out of curiosity, I imagine, just to figure out how the hell they ever planned to pull off Conrad’s work on stage. If you’re one of them then you’ll leave disappointed, but in a marvellous, jaw dropping way.
Drawing on the alternative strategies of European theatre, rejecting the sanctity of the text and occasionally slipping into an excessive stentorian delivery, Heart of Darkness becomes a sharp corrective to political and theatrical business as usual.
Richly engaging and beautifully presented.
Andrew Quick and Pete Brooks--Heart of Darkness
Tron Theatre, Glasgow from Thursday March 7, 2019, until Saturday March 9, 2019. More info: www.tron.co.uk