Theatre Company: Griffin Independent
Writer: Marius Von Mayenburg (translated by Maja Zade)
Director: Sarah Giles
Cast: Jacinta Acevski, Gig Clarke, Eden Falk and Jo Turner
Location: SBW Stables Theatre (Kings Cross, Sydney, Australia)

Synopsis (from the flyer):

Lette thinks he’s normal. But he’s wrong. His personal marketability is dire and his wife thinks he’s unspeakably ugly. Banned from presenting his newly invented plug at a Swiss convention, the mild-mannered Lette takes matters into his own hands with some transformative aesthetic surgery. The operation is a raging success - after the bandages come off women want him, men want to be him and the surgeon’s even thinking of cloning. It is not long, though, before Lette learns there might be such as thing as too beautiful.
Marius Von Mayenburg (Moving Target), one of Germany’s finest writers, brings you a pitch perfect black comedy about identity and contemporary narcissism. A modern day allegory that asks the question - how far would you go to fit in?

My Thoughts:

This could have been so great but, alas, it was not. I was so disappointed.
It wasn’t for lack of trying. The actors could not have applied any more talent or energy than they did. They were magnificent.
What was definitely not magnificent was the script! Just as it looked like the scene had been set for some real drama the play quickly degenerated to farce - and lost me completely.
This was not the thoughtful, insightful theatre that I had been hoping for.