Changes review – secrets, blackmail and lightning fast role-juggling

Teatro Carlo Goldoni, VeniceIn an extraordinary theatrical feat, two agile actors play 23 characters populating the seemingly ordinary working day of a central coupleA day in the life of a couple plays out from breakfast to dinner. She is a self-composed politician, he is a burnt-out lawyer turned anxious school teacher. They have been married for 20 years and we meet them in the morning discussing toast, problem students and political campaigns before they set off into their working day.It is ordinary life, given an extraordinary theatrical twist in its performance as it’s two agile actors play every character that the central couple meets as well as Nina (Anna Schudt), and Mark (Jörg Hartmann) themselves. Continue reading...

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