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Review of Cannibal Country by David Fick

Press listing of Cannibal Country on Broadway World

Audience Responses

Incredible just incredible !

I was rather disappointed with Cannibal Country, the more so because I came to it perhaps expecting too much after seeing White Man's Guide to Sacrifice last year. Indeed so impressed was I with last year's show that I brought another 5 people with me. But Cannibal Country lacked the wit and humour of the previous offering. The physical theatre was not clever enough or indeed physical enough to engage us, and I felt that Amelia's different characters lacked real definition. Dustin Beck was better. I think I understood the underlying premise of the piece to be something like "the world is such an unequal place where the rich as good as devour the poor so that we may as well legitimise it by legalising cannibalism". I also really think that Alex McCarthy is potentially an extraordinary talent, so I would like this criticism to be taken as positive rather than negative comment!

We enjoyed the play. Quite physical, actors had great strength and intensity.

Charistmatic performances drove the play and instilled intrigue within the audience.

Had a lovely evening also with dinner. Really enjoyed the play but I am obviously biased as Amelia is my daughter. Aside from this to encourage local writers and actors and to see such a high standard is encouraging. Alexander Bar plays an important role here. Many thanks for an enjoyable play and evening. Scip

I attended with staff and students from the International School of Hout Bay - all thoroughly enjoyed the energy, physicality and multiple characters performed by this two fabulous young actors.

The show was INTENSE. With very minimalistic stage-prop and costumes the actors told a very moving story about South Africa. The flawless interaction of the actors showed how well prepared this play must have been. Different slangs, dialects and even wrestling moves left me astonished and fascinated. It was a conceptually smart, artistically high-quality and very demanding play that I can just recommend to anyone who is not sure about his/her plans for a Thursday evening. Big thanks to the actors again for their dedicative show - it goes very appreciated!

Great performances, fabulous energy, physicality and creativity. Lovely direction. I had problems with the script and concept. It's an idea that is so big, the stakes are so high, and it is almost impossible to resolve without de-escalating it. If it's about cannibals someone has got to be eaten. Loved the opening chase scene the most.

I really enjoyed the show last night, it was funny, thought provoking and interesting with a great use of props and lighting. I would be very interested in coming to see more shows like it.

It was well acted, brilliantly directed. However there was something in the story that felt ... deja vu ish.

Enjoyed this. McCarthy is a shining talent. And his actors did a pretty good job of his satirical, futuristic political thriller in comic book/graphic novel style. The physical theatre action was impressive! Wished we'd had a bit more of the comedy of the kind we saw in Beck's hilariously out-of-shape cop. Can do with some tightening and I hope he's given the opportunity to develop this further - as he did with WHITE MAN'S GUIDE. As in that play, CANNIBAL COUNTRY makes some astute social/political comment, once or twice maybe too explicit. Great use of Cape Town backdrop.

Great evening out, with more work excellent

one of the better ones