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Curtain Rising - Curtain Rising Magazine - Volume 1, Issue 20 - September 11, 2007 - Index

An accident within her family requires Wurth to return
home, or what she used to know as her home country.
Her Croatian nationality is now a potential liability and
an incident with Serbian soldiers illustrates the perils of
simply speaking with the wrong accent in a time of
conflict.
The show is very energetic with Wurth having to
play 15 characters, change costume and also dance
throughout the production. Wurth is also an engaging
performer and moves seamlessly between the different
characters.
The problem with the show lies in the fact that I was
left wondering what it was really about. After all that
went on during the conflict, there seems to be no story
other than Wurth's own. Her life story is well told but it
doesn't resonate any kind of universal consciousness,
and is quite self-involved.
There is little content in the show and it is also frustrating
that any sort of background history is quickly glossed
over, probably in order to accommodate more dancing
numbers. Whilst it is interesting to hear Wurth's story,
it needs to be put into a social and political context to
warrant it being the subject of a theatrical production.
Otherwise, all that the audience is left with is the
opportunity to watch an actress dance and sing in
between the passing off anecdotes about her past...
and to accept it as theatre. Which it isn't.
Ines Wurth leaps to the fore.
Photo courtesy of Scant Productions.
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