Does theBattle Royalestage play take the kids-killing-kids trope too far?

While American audiences are waiting for The Hunger Games to blaze away into movie theaters , Philippine audiences are getting a different form of dystopian theater experience . A theatre troupe has adapted Battle Royale for the stage , but there ’s something uncomfortable about watching adolescent make to kill each other before a bouncy interview .

The Sipat Lawin Ensemble , in alignment with Australian playwrights David Finnigan , Jordan Prosser , Sam Burns - Warr , and Georgie McAuley , have launched Battalia Royale at Manila ’s Cultural Center of the Philippines . By all reports , the play is a vast collision , with many folks getting turned away from the debut carrying out , and future performance localise Quezon City at an abandoned high school ( a rather appropriate background ) .

Obviously , it ’s hard to make a judgment from a single clip , and perhaps this is just a healthy expression of interactive theater . But it ’s important to consider why we ’re watching the thing we ’re take in .