People tend to associate Tennessee Williams plays with pedantic required reading for high school English classes or as suitably relegated to university production where students “learn to act” through staging fusty, outdated Classics. How unfortunate. A worthy stage experience can transport an audience into an invented world of wonder and illumination, providing unanticipated insight into … Continue reading
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SHENANIGANS OBFUSCATIONS INTERRUPTIONS: a jambient collaboration
“We are somewhat fearless, which means none of us will say stop as we’re heading off the cliff, but that’s what keeps it interesting, and hopefully will for the audience as well. What I like about the project is that we are all adventurous and experimental.” Dean Terry, head of EMAC (Emerging Media … Continue reading
Getting Warmer: WHY THINGS BURN
“You’re not the only one to hear a song in the woods, or crinkle cellophane in the wind, or catch rain in a bottle. The gods let you do that.” There are mysterious truths one can learn from the searing light of a flame, the aftermath of swallowing a razor, the crinkle of cellophane grasped … Continue reading
WHY THINGS BURN: Trick or Treat with Van Quattro
Performance Art with a Fright Night Deadline! Most of you folks in the North Texas theatre community recognize Van Quattro as the world-weary donut shop owner who stole the show in Tracy Letts’ Superior Donuts at Theatre Three in 2012 or as the grim psycho with a freaky hand fetish in Second Thought Theatre’s A … Continue reading
Uncomfortably Off the Rails: On the Eve
When I think of new or original as regards a play production, and no mention gets made in its press about adaptation of or inspiration from other works, I expect to see unique characters interacting in non-derivative plots and scenes. I, like other regional theatre critics, found myself utterly enchanted by the workshop production of … Continue reading
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