When Theater Lies to You
I've bene lucky enough, in the last week, to have seen Caught by Full Circle Theater Company and Birds of the Future by Skewed Visions — two similar yet very different shows that have turned things up-side down for me.
In both, you enter the world of the piece by entering through a very visual set space; in Caught, a gallery, and in Birds, more like my dad's basement. Both then bring you abruptly into their worlds; in Caught that is a world of evocative words as expressed by incredible performances, and in Birds, a world of very physical performance, punctuated by a few sections of very visceral language. Caught is a more linear piece, which makes the way it spins you on your head all the more surprising. In a Skewed Visions piece, you expect to be turned around, but you still at some point sit with your neck craned wondering "How did I get here?"
Both are incredible shows (and with low ticket prices), and run for one more week. I can't recommend enough the experience of going outside your everyday normality to see one or both. You'll be thinking about them for weeks.
In both, you enter the world of the piece by entering through a very visual set space; in Caught, a gallery, and in Birds, more like my dad's basement. Both then bring you abruptly into their worlds; in Caught that is a world of evocative words as expressed by incredible performances, and in Birds, a world of very physical performance, punctuated by a few sections of very visceral language. Caught is a more linear piece, which makes the way it spins you on your head all the more surprising. In a Skewed Visions piece, you expect to be turned around, but you still at some point sit with your neck craned wondering "How did I get here?"
Both are incredible shows (and with low ticket prices), and run for one more week. I can't recommend enough the experience of going outside your everyday normality to see one or both. You'll be thinking about them for weeks.
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