Described as a shape-shifting theatrical
puzzle, Marius von Mayenburg’s Perplex is, well, a perplexing series of scenes,
each interconnected with those immediately either side of it, but otherwise a standalone
vignette of exquisite absurdism. Directed by Sarah Giles, Perplex
is playing in Sydney
Theatre
Wearing his inspiration on his sleeve, von
Mayenburg takes a leaf out of Pirandello’s legendary Six Characters in Search of an Author and spins a chameleonic
rhapsody of a reality-fuck out of the endless possibilities afforded by two
doors and four actors. Like a giant game of Thank
God You’re Here or musical chairs, whenever someone decisively exits or
enters through a door, the scene changes, and the scene starts anew, an endless
series of possibilities and multiple universes just waiting to be explored.
