Barbican, LondonHow do you recapture the shock impact of Alfred Jarry's 1896 play, with its savage portrait of a grotesque monster? Given that Jarry's play started as a schoolboy prank aimed at a detested teacher, Declan Donnellan has had a brilliant idea in this Cheek By Jowl production : he plays it as the Oedipal fantasy of a camcorder-clutching teenager taking revenge on his parents and their French bourgeoi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:43PM on April 12, 2013