It seems reasonable to say that Jess Jung’s production of Happy Days, a play of sorts by Samuel Beckett, is theater reduced to its bare essentials, or elevated to its bare essentials, or refined to eliminate distractions, or purified of waste — leaving what, it seems reasonable to wonder?
Nijinsky’s Last Dance
“I am Nijinsky!” The actor Primoz Bezjak repeatedly declares, one moment bathing in glory as the acclaimed god of dance, and the next wailing in pain as that integration of self crumbles. Mladinsko Theatre’s spare and searing production of Nijinsky’s Last Dance has come to Washington from Slovenia. In the intimacy of the Mead Theatre […]
Funeral Potatoes
Funeral Potatoes Written and Performed by Jjana Valentiner Directed by Dody DiSanto Produced at Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint Reviewed by Debbie Minter Jackson The talented Jjana Valentiner brings a cache of characters to life in this touching collective of family members from Mormon stock on their various, sometimes comical life journeys. Riffing on and […]
The Bridge of Bodies
The Bridge of Bodies Written and performed by Kathleen Gonzales Directed by Patrick Crowley Produced by the Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint Reviewed by Rosalind Lacy Sounds of breaking waves and a projected image of surf washing on shore place us in a paradise of calm. A faint echo of voodoo drums sets us […]
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