Prime_Time review – memorably unsettling Amazon takedown

Barbican, London
This anarchic discourse on the power of the e-commerce giant takes place behind a plastic curtain, as fresh produce gets annihilated

Your package will arrive in 60 minutes," 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's argument: if life gives you lemons, what else can you do but kill Jeff Bezos?

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's 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's rebellion.

Prime_Time is at the Barbican, London, until 6 November.