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Franko B, Because of Love | Photo: Hugo Glendinning

Franko B: Because of Love

June 8th, 2013 by

Franko B’s Because of Love is the closest encounter I have had with Joseph Conrad’s Colonel Kurtz to date. Like a seemingly disciplined inmate, the performer paces up and down along the celluloid wall of his recollection cell, readying himself for a confrontation to come rather than sparring with images of televised conflicts, military parades or 1960s […]

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Franko B: Because of Love – Volume 1 | Photo: Hugo Glendinning

Franko B: Because of Love – Volume 1

March 5th, 2013 by

At first Franko B’s new work Because of Love – Volume 1 appears as resolutely non-theatrical as his previous offerings. Incorporating an uncompromisingly opaque mise-en-scene and sections of unblinking repetition that lead nowhere, it very politely puts both fingers up at the proscenium arch that surrounds it. Yet it also weaves a story through our subconscious through […]

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