Theatre Review- Welcome To The Woods
by Antonio Miniño on November 20, 2009
Jonathan Co Green ©Paul Lomax
In today’s desire to escape, there is an urgent need for more magical realism. The term was used within artistic criticism in the visual arts back in the 20s and quickly filtered into literature and theatre mostly for Latin American and European plays to describe works where realistic settings are splashed with elements that are too unusual to believe. This does not mean magical realism did not exist in theatre until after the 20s, the element of fantasy has been a part of Scandinavian literature since before Peer Gynt and writer Alex Van Warmerdam brings us a contemporary farcical yet naturalistic experience with Welcome To The Woods.
