Theatre
Apocalypse now
THE LAST NIGHT OF MANKIND brings a blast of alternative theatre to the International Festival. x l Mark Fisher
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Royal Lyceum Theatre, 473 2000, 11—13 Aug, 7.30pm; 13 Aug, 2pm, 27—220.
IT WAS 20 YEARS AGO TODAY
I The Last Days of Mankind in the Edinburgh International Festival of 1983. Glasgow's Citizens' Theatre staged its own version of the Karl Kraus play which is now the inSpiration for El Periterico de Obiectos (see above). This one was four hours long. although still a very liberal adaptation of the unweildy original. and set images of war. prostitution and disease against an innocuous view of a Viennese coffee shop.
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