The title is hilarious. The setting, a cafe called Les Imbeciles, is a comment on the play itself and works to set the tone, but the tone is abundantly clear. These siblings are doomed, and we know it, but they don't. It just doesn't register in their iphone-sized worlds. ("Where even is Iowa?") So in a way it's like a horror film with the audience wanting to scream "run!" and another way, it's a great satire about our obsessions with the mundane. But it's wonderfully entertaining, edge of your seat wacky fun!
The title is hilarious. The setting, a cafe called Les Imbeciles, is a comment on the play itself and works to set the tone, but the tone is abundantly clear. These siblings are doomed, and we know it, but they don't. It just doesn't register in their iphone-sized worlds. ("Where even is Iowa?") So in a way it's like a horror film with the audience wanting to scream "run!" and another way, it's a great satire about our obsessions with the mundane. But it's wonderfully entertaining, edge of your seat wacky fun!