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The Jellyfish, a pop-up theatre in a school playground constructed entirely from recycled material, is testament to how junk can be transformed into something beautiful. Sadly, its inaugural production is just plain rubbish.
The structure, by Berlin-based architects Kobberling and Kaltwasser, is angular, elegant and a little reminiscent of the spiky work of artist Cornelia Parker, who for her installation 'On Cold Dark Matter' exploded a garden shed. But the project, led by The Red Room, is undermined by the startling ineptitude of Simon Wu's play, an embarrassingly hamfisted attempt to yoke familial breakdown and environmental apocalypse.
The plot meanders from India, where a boy sees his poverty-stricken family perish in floods, to London, where as a prosperous adult he watches the Thames burst its banks and threaten to drown him, his wife and his daughter. What a waste.
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The higher responsibilty of theatre critics is to give balanced feedback to new writers. Glib, damning reviews, such as the one above, are destructive and tabloid. The playwright, originally from Hong Kong, is doing really interesting work that has been showcased at the Soho Theatre and Oval House.OIKOS is not a perfect work but the evening I saw the play the audience were certainly engageda and stimulated. I thought the play's intertwining stories of the Ganges and Thames was an original narrative told from a London perspective by a Chinese playwright with imagination and flair.
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