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T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T. is a sequence of cinematic images (with terse dialogue interspersed) aimed at demonstrating how the pressures of our contemporary global economy on domestic relations have segregated us from faith, tradition and the capacity to love. It's the story of a wealthy manufacturer whose family is destroyed by carnal attractions to an enigmatic visitor. The family members' primal attraction to the stranger is compensation for the hollowness of their own existence. One of the evening's biggest laughs came when a character asked the maid if she knew how to speak the laughter triggered by the awareness that to that point, the production had been mostlya sequence of visual tableaux stunning for both their composition and their economy of gesture. LA Weekly With 11 & 12 by Peter Brook and T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T. by Grzegorz Jarzyna the New Zealand International Arts Festival provided two outstanding plays by two major international directors. One by a director who has changed the face of theatre over the last half century and the other who will probably change theatre over the next half century. (...) What gives the play its intensity and drama is the brilliant staging; a combination of lighting, music, sets and superb acting. The lighting owes much to the original film and other Italian films of the 1960's but also the dramatic lighting of Hollywood films of the 1930'sw and 50's. Each of the sequences is like an individual cinematic scene with each building on the otherto create a frightening level of emotional complexity. National Business Review

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