COLLISIONWORKING IV: Spell - Creation & Influences

[collisionwork]

The next installment of my notes on the three shows I have currently up at The Brick is now up at The Brick's blog, HERE.

That is all.

Comments

Re: Spell last night

[adam-mcgovern.livejournal.com]

Impeccably acted. Ingeniously designed and
staged. Some erudite and aware arguments worked in and not forced to
fit. The woman interrogator emerges as a kind of refreshingly
empathetic ideological character sketch of Condoleezza Rice (whom I
loathe; that's what's refreshing). Could do without the self-reflexive
writer's-workshop section, though the later blurring of the writer
with the male interrogator is an astute anatomizing of the play's
ambiguities. The prisoner is a good portrait, thematically, of the way
that American fighters both left and right tend to implant social
instructions rather than tap personal passions -- though the downside
is that she never quite cohered as a personality for me herself; a
weakness, more than a mystery, at the center. But brave walls to
scale.