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Mrs Puntila and Her Man Matti
Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
IT’S not often you see theatre that feels dangerous. But Murat Daltaban’s production of Brecht’s savage comedy of class relations is fired by a tangible sense of rage. He means it.
In it, there is a jobcentre but the place looks like a cattle market, where employers, on a whim, size up candidates by physical attribute.
Workers are animals to be sentimental about, then exploited, then slaughtered. As though it were a common event, a failed jobseeker commits suicide.
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