‘PRIME_TIME’ is absolutely not a slick, self-righteous takedown of Amazon. But ... almost everybody in the Western world is on some level infuriated with Jeff Bezos, and in a sense all In Bed with My Brother are doing is pushing this into the realm of art via entertaining absurdity and stomach-churning bile.
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"To us, Jeff Bezos is the epitome of the capitalist, white supremacist, patriarchal violence that’s destroying the planet,” they say in the programme. Phew, big statement. And one that, even if no one is going to unpack it entirely in an hour of performance art, calls for more than just name-calling.
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This isn’t a show that’s trying to be nuanced or even, for the most part, articulate. It’s a raw roar of rage, knowingly undercut by daft humour, beating a symbolic effigy of one of the wealthiest people to have ever existed.
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Ricocheting between the silly and the sinister, Prime_Time never settles in a single groove. It is precisely this unstable quality ... which makes it so memorably unsettling.
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