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Spotlight on Heart of Darkness
KURTZ
New End Theatre
TACKLING one of literature’s more enigmatic characters is not a simple task.
Joseph Conrad’s original novel, Heart Of Darkness, presented the character of Kurtz as an unattainable symbol of darkness rather than a living, breathing man, while Francis Ford Copolla’s famous film, Apocalypse Now, retained Kurtz’s mystery by hiding him in reams of darkness and minimising his time on screen.
In this new play by Robert Wynne-Simmons, simply titled Kurtz, a fresh evaluation of Conrad’s anti-hero is attempted, bringing Kurtz out to “tell his own story”.
The result is a captivating one-man, one-hour production in which Kurtz (Paul McEwan), a European ivory trader, rises to a position of godlike status in the unexplored world of the Congo, while losing control over his own sanity.
McEwan shows remarkable energy, although the script’s first-person, diary-like nature means that many of Kurtz’s qualities are inevitably absent.
While Conrad’s character had “the appalling face of a glimpsed truth, piercing enough to penetrate all the hearts that beat in the darkness”, by transferring the story to stage, and presenting from the viewpoint of such an enigma, something of the darkness is lost.
Until September 30
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