Bryan Cranston loses his mind live on stage—and the audience becomes the studio audience.
A stage production with the similar plot of the 1976 film of the same name but uses stage devices and audio visual technology to immerse the audience as participants. As the distance between fact and fiction is reduced, mimicking the blurring of truth and fiction in contemporary news media
Direction
Ivo van Hove turns viewers into participants—screens everywhere, nowhere to hide.
Acting
Cranston's live 'mad as hell' makes Peter Finch look restrained.
Production
Restaurant on stage, cameras in your face—pure theatrical assault.
Director
Ivo van Hove
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The on-stage restaurant served real food to actual ticket holders who became unwitting extras—van Hove loves making audiences the show.
This 2018 production premiered months before 'fake news' became daily vocabulary, yet feels more prophetic about 2020s media chaos than the 1976 original.
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