Pompeii, L.A. at Malthouse Theatre

Los Angeles is burning. And he’s enjoying the view.Take a seat next to that child star. You know the one. Used-up, spat-out and stuck on the fast-track to self-destruction. But now he’s tearing the whole world down with him.Declan Greene, one of this generation’s most electric playwrights, creates a schizoid eulogy for the American empire, where personal psychology is blurred with the world of the silver screen. Los Angeles is erupting, a damaged young mind scrambles for an escape route and Judy Garland is guiding the way.

Director Matthew Lutton transforms this febrile feat of imagination into a series of spectacular acts that refuse all categorisation, creating a hilarious plummet into the anxieties and hysteria of a culture that is turning itself inside out.