Bros

2022 - 10 - 16

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Bros review: Divisive depiction of totalitarian torture (The Irish Times)

Dublin Theatre Festival 2022: Disturbing and demanding drama echos a resurgent European right-wing.

It is difficult to provide a star rating for Bros, as your response will entirely depend on your tolerance for theatricalised trauma. A picture of Samuel Beckett appears at one point, against the strains of Renรฉe Fleming singing Schubertโ€™s lieder By the time the show begins, with an untranslated monologue performed by an old man in white clerical robes, you can feel the clamour in your bones, vibrating from the speakers to the floor of the stalls.

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