It is about a group of people who, instead of being victimised by random violence, stage-manage the randomness and relish it.
There's all that violence, delivered with a keen visual flair right down the final bloody splodges that burst from the top of victims' heads, but it's violence without consequence and violence staged as fun.
For Raczka, the use of violence on stage is complicated.
There is no physical violence on stage, no action.
We are left with the consideration that some culturemongers are content to watch violence on stage, but cannot countenance a glimpse of pubic hair.
As I've written before, there is undoubtedly a place for violence on stage because there is violence in the world and if theatre has any relevance to the world it has to reflect it.
I remember that he moved with unmistakable violence on stage: the rolling of the neck and shoulders, the swagger - intimidatory tactics that Lee employs, exquisitely effectively, to frighten his brother.
One Abbey hand had warned that the bad temper and violence on stage (the Playboy tries to repeat his murder before being burned by a lighted sod) would inevitably spill over into the pit.
Though there are elements of danger and violence on stage, which resonate with the country's history of political oppression, this work is above all a celebration of the energy and beauty of Bausch's dancers, and of mankind's capacity for humour, tenderness and survival.
Young dancers place the dangers of gun violence center stage in a powerful new PSA.
When confronted with horrific violence on stage or on screen, I have a tendency to grab whomever I'm sitting beside and angrily mutter, "Why are they doing this to us?" At "Taste," I left marks on my friend's body during the prolonged kitchen surgery.
