{"id":3513,"date":"2021-10-31T14:37:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T13:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/31\/prime_time-review-memorably-unsettling-amazon-takedown\/"},"modified":"2021-10-31T14:37:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T13:37:45","slug":"prime_time-review-memorably-unsettling-amazon-takedown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/31\/prime_time-review-memorably-unsettling-amazon-takedown\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime_Time review \u2013 memorably unsettling Amazon takedown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barbican, London<\/strong>
This anarchic discourse on the power of the e-commerce giant takes place behind a plastic curtain, as fresh produce gets annihilated<\/p>\n

\u201cYour package will arrive in 60 minutes,\u201d announces the soothing voice of Alexa at the start of Prime_Time, a full-throttle, punk-techno disquisition on life in the age of Amazon. Two topless women in jeans and custard-coloured wigs shuffle furtively towards a transparent plastic curtain separating them from the audience. It is there ostensibly as protection: in smashing the patriarchy, Kat Cory and Dora Lynn will also smash, with baseball bats, the contents of an entire fresh produce section. Fruit rains from the ceiling, underlining the show\u2019s argument: if life gives you lemons, what else can you do but kill Jeff Bezos? <\/p>\n

Prime_Time, from the trio In Bed With My Brother (Nora Alexander is the off-stage third member), demonstrates that protest is rarely simple. The plastic barrier installed for health and safety reasons makes it seem as if the actors are swaddled inside Amazon\u2019s own amniotic packaging, while the instruments of destruction, among them a drill and a chainsaw, are all produced from the Amazon boxes piled on either side of the stage. The e-commerce giant has co-opted even the tools of the women\u2019s rebellion.<\/p>\n

Prime_Time is at the Barbican, London<\/a>, until 6 November.<\/p>\n

Continue reading…<\/a>
\nBarbican, LondonThis anarchic discourse on the power of the e-commerce giant takes place behind a plastic curtain, as fresh produce gets annihilated
\n\u201cYour package will arrive in 60 minutes,\u201d announces the soothing voice of Alexa at the start of Prime_Time, a full-throttle, punk-techno disquisition on life in the age of Amazon. Two topless women in jeans and custard-coloured wigs shuffle furtively towards a transparent plastic curtain separating them from the audience. It is there ostensibly as protection: in smashing the patriarchy, Kat Cory and Dora Lynn will also smash, with baseball bats, the contents of an entire fresh produce section. Fruit rains from the ceiling, underlining the show\u2019s argument: if life gives you lemons, what else can you do but kill Jeff Bezos?
\nPrime_Time, from the trio In Bed With My Brother (Nora Alexander is the off-stage third member), demonstrates that protest is rarely simple. The plastic barrier installed for health and safety reasons makes it seem as if the actors are swaddled inside Amazon\u2019s own amniotic packaging, while the instruments of destruction, among them a drill and a chainsaw, are all produced from the Amazon boxes piled on either side of the stage. The e-commerce giant has co-opted even the tools of the women\u2019s rebellion.
\nPrime_Time is at the Barbican, London, until 6 November. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Barbican, LondonThis anarchic discourse on the power of the e-commerce giant takes place behind a plastic curtain, as fresh produce gets annihilated \u201cYour package will arrive in 60 minutes,\u201d announces the soothing voice of Alexa at the start of Prime_Time, a full-throttle, punk-techno disquisition on life in the age of Amazon. Two topless women in …<\/p>\n

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