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If you go to a theater show right now (and you’ve got the option to!
But the artists must handle that presence delicately.
How many of the theatrical conventions can be subtracted from the live experience?
Light-touch shows and their uncanny caressing quality is the hallmark of this weird pre-dawn period.
All told, it takes maybe 45 minutes.
The secret to this kind of fluid, seemingly borderless work is actually hidden discipline.
And despite the many folks involved, theres a shared, modest intention behind the whole thing.
This restraint registers as a kind of ragged elegance.
That question of duration is a serious one.
Given too much time, light-touch work can easily grow precious.
There are gestures at deeper conversations (Are you ill?
Also, the show is clearly built for a pre-vaccination era.
Is regular conversation really so difficult?
I foundA Thousand Waysa cloying experience, but its grown in my memory.
It was June, but there we were, acting as our March selves for an audience of none.
(Nottages contribution is primarily as conceiver and curator, while co-creator Miranda Haymon directed the overall production.)
Here, as inA Thousand Ways,there are no in-person performers aside from ushers and the theatergoers themselves.
Parts of the Signature look as though theyve been turned over to a primary school.
Surely we missed the theater for reasons other than this?
The cavalier pomposity and condescension of that gesture still shock me.
I turned my back and wandered away.
There are other things to see.
