Play 'more Chekovian than Kafkaesque'

Cutting-edge theatre company Nu Kulture have admitted that they very nearly split up through a difference in artistic interpretation of their new two-man stage play, Homo Erectus.

Nu-Kulture: Cutting Edge

The production has been moderately successful in the fringe clubs and small venues throughout North London, and was given a glowing 50-word review in Time Out.

But plans

But plans to take the show to the Edinburgh festival next year were put on hold, after several weeks during which writers and performers Tim Peacer and Rakesh Saroapeena refused to speak to one another, resulting in Saroapeena leaving their shared studio apartment in the Barbican.

'Rakesh wanted us to promote the play as being a pastiche of kafkaesque self-parody' explained Peacer, 'whereas I recognised that any elements of Kafka were a deliberate catharsis, an irony of the idiomatic process itself, and this ironically makes the production a far more Chekovian experience for us as performers.'

Rakesh has since rescinded his point of view, on the basis that his collaborator had a better overall knowledge of deliberate and unintentional irony in the works of Chekov, and also because they use Tim's dad's van.