Gate theatre, LondonA story from a Somali pirate kicks off this outlandish comic critique of Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now Wolfram Lotz's surreally comic critique of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and the film it inspired, Apocalypse Now, picks apart the "white saviour" complex and enduringly colonial narratives of Africa. Anthony Simpson-Pike amps up the German playwright's absurdist quirks in this Monty P…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:23AM on March 8, 2019