| GRENFELL and HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES This Weekend | |
| Posted by: sergius 07:34 pm EDT 04/28/24 | |
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| Two pieces of documentary political theatre, one more affecting than the other. GRENFELL was among the best things I saw this season. Sadly, the house (St. Ann’s) was half empty last night. It’s a difficult subject to be sure—the worst residence fire in the UK since WWII—but it was powerful and moving beyond my expectations. And a terrific example of how unadorned theatre is often the most rousing kind. GRENFELL is at once elegant, poignant, and singularly enraged. HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES (New York Theatre Workshop) covers the same ground as the recent film ZONE OF INTEREST, but it’s less compelling largely because it’s overemphatic. The material is horrific, of course, but it feels like the creatives here (Moises Kaufman with Amanda Gronich) don’t trust the audience to understand the banality of evil or how the SS were basically governed by dissociation; they’re always pointing to what’s evident. This distrust of the plainly disturbing material is distancing which, given the subject, seems ironic. Both shows are thoughtful and important, but if you’re choosing between the two, go with GRENFELL. It’s staggering. | |
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