Perspectivoyage: The Mann Bobb McCauley Experience
June 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Perspectivoyage apparently derives its name from the voyage taken by the audience in experiencing different perspectives from the underlying events. This pairing of visual artist Matthew Mann and choreographer Lucy Bowen McCauley with actor Dave Bobb is an interesting idea, but not entirely successful in execution.
Collapsing Silence
June 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
What forces could silence a person, a community, or even a civilization? Collapsing Silence is a Source Festival artistic blind date between visual artist David Carlson, composer John Moletress and choreographer Ilana Faye Silverstein. It’s a successful collabroation that is both visually and conceptually interesting. [Read more...]
Volcanic in Origin
June 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Brothers and sisters, before we begin our meditation on Gregory Hischak’s theatrical accomplishment, let us draw our context (as Hischak may have) from scripture: specifically, from Genesis 2: 26 and 3:19. “And God said, Let man … have dominion…over all the earth… And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof….” We have been battling over naming rights ever since. [Read more...]
The Making of a Modern Folk Hero
June 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Most stories about a hero involve super powers, but The Making of a Modern Folk Hero features a would-be champion armed with little more than a ridiculous costume and righteous indignation. As unlikely as that may seem, both the hero and this play at the Source Festival achieve major success. [Read more...]
Source Festival: Lost and Found
June 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
an evening of 10 minute plays
The theme offered to playwrights in this category is finding yourself or a long lost love. These plays ask what you are seeking, but also what you might be willing to lose in the process. [Read more...]
Nacirema
June 16, 2011 By 1 Comment
We have been telling each other stories through theater for twenty-seven hundred years, but that doesn’t mean we can’t do it better. Two hundred years ago, a proposal to sing songs in the middle of a play would have brought howls of outrage; now we have musicals about religious books. Five years ago the innovative (and woefully underutilized) director Christopher Gallu added video to an adaptation of Franz Kafka’s The Trial, turning the tiny Capital Hill Arts Workshop into a space large enough to encompass a whole city. The technology exists to amplify theater with video as well as music, flat art and dance. What’s holding us back? [Read more...]
Spacebar: A Broadway play by Kyle Sugarman
June 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
As Spacebar opens, Kyle Sugarman’s dad (Brian Razzino, good in this) is dragging himself into Kyle’s room, carrying a neat whiskey for fortification. He looks like he is preparing himself to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a dog. He draws himself up, and then delivers an astounding monologue – shocking, howlingly funny, bitter, profoundly tragic. It is brilliant! It is too much! It’s not a monologue – it’s an audition piece! [Read more...]
