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The Infernal Comedy

Opens: 17/06/2011 Closes: 18/06/2011 Barbican Centre, London
Hollywood veteran John Malkovich takes to the stage in this theatre-opera hybrid based on the real-life convicted murderer Jack Unterweger, who found fame as a poet during his incarceration. We see Unterweger return from the dead to publish his autobiography. Martin Haselböck conducts music by Beethoven, Haydn and Mozart. For more information visit: http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=10313 Buy: https://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing/performancelist.asp?shoid=17973,32841
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The Telegraph“A weirdly embarrassing misfire...” As any fan of his movies will attest, Malkovich can incarnate this sort of coiled creepiness very stylishly, but the text here provides him with nothing more than a collection of melodramatic clichés...
 
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Financial Times“An odd event...” As each layer of the personality was stripped away, Malkovich’s performance became ever more disturbing...
 
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Guardian“Resulting sense of overload...” By the end, we have been confronted with both the lethal charm with which he attracted women, and the unspeakable acts he inflicted upon his victims. But the truth about his motivation eludes us as it eludes him...
 
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