Istvan Dugalin's review of TAKE RIMBAUD, presented by The Howland Company and Buddies in Bad Times Theatre.

Susanna Fournier’s playful script explores frictions between love and death

'take rimbaud' despairs about the limits of art, but the production induces the anarchic sensation that anything is possible on stage.

Playwright, director, and theatre maker Susanna Fournier joins Phil Rickaby fresh from rehearsal to talk about take rimbaud, her ambitious new production at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in association with the Howland Company. Inspired by Arthur Rimbaud's iconic prose poem A Season in Hell, the play is a decade-plus labour of love that explores what it means to be a young artist crashing into the hard realities of the industry — and what happens when you refuse to take the path of least resistance.

“What is Hell?” Take Wilde, famously charged with indecency in a time where it was still illegal to be queer who said: “We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.” Or take Huxley, …

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