Dead Wedding

This was great fun and Barbican is such a great venue too. The puppets were so well done and had such life in them and moved in such a realistic and unique way and it was fun. Yet the story is slightly baffling...this is what it was said about it and I agree:

"In the original Greek myth... Eurydice dies tragically on her wedding day but Orpheus, her fiancée, bargains to bring her back from the Land of the Dead.
Greedy to gaze upon his bride once more, Orpheus breaks the deal he has made with Pluto, the god of Hades, and Eurydice is lost forever. Orpheus’ moans of anguish enrage the once friendly Bacchae, who rip him to shreds before throwing his dismembered body into the river where his head can still be heard singing."

In the Dead Wedding...Orpheus has found most of his strewn body parts except his legs. But he finds himself in Hades and of course ... he’s dead.
If he remarries Eurydice underground, all will be fine; they will be together for eternity. But she has a more pressing task as she desperately tries to wash something terrible away. Slowly her faltering memories start to corrode as the ferryman churns up the filthy waters sending ripples throughout the whole of the Underworld. "

H and I both agreed we could not see the metaphores implicated in this play, which was none the less really entertaining and fun. There is also a post talk with journalists which was great fun.