Optimism

At the Sydney Theatre Company, Optimism, very liberally (according to Mk) adapted from Voltaire's Candide apparently retains little more than the characters from Voltaire's work. In this staging, which defies my powers of description, the characters fly from country to country somehow surviving a series of violent and excruciating calamaties.

The performances are skillful, none more so than Frank Woodley whose wit and ad libbing skills are used to great effect.