Avis des critiques

It hints at the possibility of reconciliation even if these men were once enemies on the field, but without making the whole thing some mushy exercise in staged truth and reconciliation.

An illuminating and artful meditation on the meaning of conflict, Theatre of War feels even more urgent in an era when the West’s relationship to war is mediated (or entirely hidden from view) by the government’s controls on media.

Arias incorporates imperfections and glitches into every scene, in an attempt to shock the system out of those hamster-wheel cycles and memory loops.

Part therapeutic theatre, part performative installation and part Brechtian psychoanalysis, Theatre of War is at the very least a promising opera prima – the kind of work that, along with its imperfections, justifies not only its own existence but also that of the festivals that provide it with a test audience and possible launchpad.