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Felix Listens To The World The Suitcase Royale Company Bosco Theatre Garden Of Unearthly Delights Season closed There's very much of an absurdist approach and child-like simplicity to 'Felix Listens To The World', as micro cardboard sets within suitcases are used, and very little consideration is given to the proportions of pretty much the rest of the cleverly interchangeable junkyard props used throughout this strange, but very intriguing and totally engaging forlorn fairytale. The mere fact that Felix, the only actual human character is simultaneously acted out, often in separate corners of the stage, by three identically dressed bearded men also adds to the barrage of sounds and fast paced despair and lunacy. Felix lives an ordinary life atop of his 28th floor apartment block - that is until he decides to skip work at his office job one day and go to the seaside. There he meets Rose and the pair instantly fall in love and marry soon after. Then, for no given reason Rose (played by a Russian Doll) up and leaves Felix by sailing away in a teacup. Heartbroken and desperate, Felix sets sail in a suitcase in search of his wife only to become marooned on an island where he slowly descends into madness. It's there that Felix begins to listen to his inner voices and begins to regain the strength and determination to continue his quest of love. Despite being a tragedy as such, there's a steady thread of comedic moments that are brilliantly accentuated by the continual shifts in both time and perspectives, not forgetting the acute sense of timing provided by Felix; all three of him.  |
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