Bruno Schulz's great masterpiece...revived PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, 31 July 2008
The 2008 Fringe Festival and the Great Heresy Theater Company are proud to present a new adaptation of Bruno Schulz's The Street of Crocodiles. The unusually beautiful and surprising narrative, incubated in a sleepy Polish town by one of the twentieth century's most innovative and uninhibited imaginations, comes alive on stage anew in this bare-bones yet faithful interpretation.

 

It is an ages-old, unanswerable question: Do we all see the world in the same way? Is "yellow" the same color for everyone?

 

Some of us experience color as sound, and sound as scent, and scent as memory. One such person is Bruno.

 

Our story begins in an imagined August, in which a sensitive young boy named Bruno begins to awaken to the world around him, sharing his
experiences of reality with those around him. But his awakening is but the precipice of a strange, entirely new reality. When his father begins hearing voices in the wallpaper, dabbling in alchemy, and experiencing visits from otherworldly beings, Bruno becomes aware that the world can sometimes spin on a different axis, tearing up the fabric of space and time and scattering it, wantonly, in all directions.

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