The Anarchy

Anna Sokolova
Jun 1, 2025
1 min read

KXT Sydney, May 2025

The review

It is a strange feeling on a day when the season is over. What was so dense, present, and accessible, and - disappeared into the ether.

For now, setting myself to wait and look forward to the next show, next time to see the work and have a heart-warming talk, and feel connected with Tobias @luckytobie and @unofficialkerithfanclub.

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Squeezed between two lines of spikes decorated by fairy lights and a highly tense flow of words, an original text translated via earpieces, this performance is set on a black-mirror floor, edged with tall vertical mirrors.

Rumbling music was swapped by sounds of large fans, by heavy rock, and then again to an anxious quiet theme, along with brilliant lighting which competent the reflections, dense fog at times, or dramatic moments of high emotional tension.

Perfectly structured to appear unstructured, this performance is designed to be watched, to overwhelm, and to submerge the viewer into the cruel history of Anarchy.

It is non-conventional, brave, smart, wordy, dense with facts, loud work made to challenge. It looks polished one minute, showing stitches on the inside the next.

It is one to submerge, to let under the skin, to drop out expectations, and let it flow in.

This is where theatre is an experiment, a break from the traditionally framed theatre.

It rewards you with a deep feeling of satisfaction. Made you feel initiated. Maybe it is a cult - then I am in.