This has happened to me before. Just as I think I've gone as far as I possibly could go, and lasted as long as I possibly could last, I see a decent piece of theatre that reminds me that there's still work to be done.
Polish farce, in translation at the local Hungarian state theatre. Written in the 60's, and with Bora the Tailor still fresh in my mind, I was wondering how it would have played on the JDP stage when it premiered there. Likely a very different production from this, which updated the context from the alienation on the path to socialism to the alienation on path out of decadence. Still very effective, but the dialectical logic of the script seemed out of place. "Life is synthesis!" And this sort of thing needs to be winking and nudging at the audience throughout, pointing to the real world and saying impermissible things about it. I think the term in this country used to be "lizards" -- political references that appear and vanish instantly. This production actually reminded me very much of the O'Toole film The Ruling Class. Front row, studio scale, so I was back in scene-study class watching people do their work, which was frankly the invigorating bit. I still have the keys to that work.
Very good to witness it for a bit. Reckon I'll push on.