Love and Information previews - Page 2

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 3/11/14 at 7:09am

Thanks for the responses, guys

[RippedMan]

Posted: 3/11/14 at 10:23am

I sat in the mezz off the right and had a full view. Most everything is staged in the center, so I really don't think there'd be any bad seats. It's a cool little theater!

[jnb9872]

Posted: 3/30/14 at 10:35pm

I really enjoyed the experience of watching this, though it definitely ebbed and flowed - nearly two hours is a bit much but at any point a scene could have grabbed me anew so it was rather a quite successful evening that the vast majority of them had me chuckling or reckoning with their meanings. The acting was pretty phenomenal throughout, but not in a showy way. These were performances stripped of the luxury of duration, so they had to be immediate, impulsive, and incredibly efficient. In a way, it was kind of an acting paradise, to be totally "in the moment" as literally no other moments exist outside of each scene.

The direction, too, was fantastic. Physicalizing and interpreting this text is a task unto itself, and the execution was about as good as I think I could hope for. And the precision with which most of the interpretations hit their targets for demographic details, contextual suggestions and sheer invention (I hope the Elvis impersonator scene is stated to be such in the text, but if it isn't and the scene is just that one line about Israel and Palestine, then that is an inspired moment in every way.)

On the whole I enjoyed it, and am glad I saw it. Also, and I am admittedly not a Churchill completist, but this oddly felt like the most optimistic and encouraging of her works. The overall theme and incomprehension and chaos, of love and faith and yearning and searching, it all felt rather comforting on some level. I left the theatre feeling glad I'd sat through it.

Updated On: 3/30/14 at 10:35 PM