FALLEN: THE BOOK OF SAMAEL
Glassiano Productions · Ottawa, Canada
by Amy Rainer Zhou
Comedy
A farcical retelling of the fall of the devil from heaven through the style of mafia film noir. Samael is a hitman for the great leader Papa who owns the streets. But learning the true motives of Papa Samael starts a revolution. You will laugh until you “literally” die.
(…)Gangland movie style killing, TV police investigation show, all done with a playfully contemporary vision of a reversed biblical adventure where God, better known here as Papa, is the arch gangster who has set up his believers as a criminal organization-The Brotherhood – to get rid of intruders and those who don’t obey. Something of this reminds me of M the Maudit. – the arch-criminal, that Fritz Lang film that took us all back to the pre second world war days warning us of the coming of the Nazis. I’ll bet the author is a real film buff and this staging makes a bit of an attempt to get into the “film noir” atmosphere (…)
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