Divadlo Metro: Another Black Light experience in Prague.

So, I took Jeff to see Life is Life at Divadlo Metro on Národní Třída last week. Unfortunatley, that is the only show they are doing for the rest of our time here (I really wanted to see Miss Sony). Divadlo Metro is the theatre where they have a “workshop” after each performance, so I was really looking forward to it.

It more or less is about some of the aspects of one man’s life: birth, different things he does, love life, etc. But what you really want to know is if it was any good, right? Should you go see it? Well, it was far more entertaining than Alice, I must say. This is mostly due to the pace of the show. Lots of things going on. It has less of a plot than Alice, which will astound some of you. Visually, Metro has a unique look about what they do. Everything is rather cartoony, which is somewhat interesting. As for the Black Light “bits”, there is nothing really special and—for me—no moments of “How did they do that?”. I liked it just fine (despite the crowd of German children), but Jeff wasn’t crazy about it.

Of course, the idea of a workshop held promise for me. Essentially, they showed how they did one or two bits—again, nothing surprisng—and then invited a very reluctant audience to come up and try it. Interesting, but a VERY loose use of the word “workshop”.

Tickets were 440 Kc. Should you go? I don’t have an answer here. Some of you would love it and some would loathe it. I may try to see the black light Faust playing somewhere. A familiar and stronger plot encourages me.

~ by Rob on July 17, 2007.