Feted Polish director Łukasz Twarkowski follows up his much-heralded The Employees – which ran at the Southbank Centre earlier this year – with Rothko, an epic four-hour fusion of theatre and live cinema that explores the scandal wherein a couple in 2004 paid $8.3m for a Mark Rothko painting only to discover that it was a fake created by a guy from Queens. Rohtko isn’t just a very long ‘drama’ about these events, but an epic meditation on the difference between real and fake complete with pounding techno beats and two giant video screens.
Performed in Latvian, English, Chinese and Polish with English surtitles.