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The Return of Small Mouth Sounds
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#25The Return of Small Mouth Sounds
Posted: 10/4/16 at 8:22am
I had two ten year old boys next to me when I saw it, no parents in sight -- which I thought was odd. They got a little antsy at a few parts, but nothing terrible. They were not sure what to make of the nudity. At all.
(Turns out their adults had seats in another section.)
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#26The Return of Small Mouth Sounds
Posted: 10/4/16 at 8:44am
The girl sitting in front of me seemed more amused than anything. She was there with a large family (looked like parents and grandparents, and perhaps an older sibling) and they all appeared completely engaged with the show throughout.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
bear88
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/26/16
#27The Return of Small Mouth Sounds
Posted: 10/13/17 at 2:59am
Small Mouth Sounds is in the midst of a small-scale national tour, and previews started Wednesday in San Francisco at ACT, where it will be through mid-December. I'm seeing it toward the end of the month at the Strand Theater, another Bay Area venue I've never been to before. It's a 283-seat theater, so even my bargain rear orchestra seats aren't too far away. It seems like Rachel Chavkin projects are everywhere, between her new show in Washington, D.C., Hadestown, and this tour.
bear88
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/26/16
#28The Return of Small Mouth Sounds
Posted: 10/30/17 at 3:01am
I saw the tour production Sunday evening in San Francisco. (This isn't New York City; a Sunday evening show here is an unusual thing. The theater didn't sell out, but turnout was certainly respectable.)
Perhaps I will like this better on reflection, but I was disappointed, especially after reading the consistently positive reviews. The tone of the play shifts from slapstick silly to quite sad. There's nothing inherently wrong with that approach, as it's a satirical comedy most of the time, but I never found myself truly invested in the characters because it was difficult to take many of them very seriously. The play certainly has its compelling moments, and a few very funny ones. I just started to lose interest after a while.
I was able to get very inexpensive tickets on the ACT website, so I'm not complaining. (And for what it's worth, my wife liked the play more than I did.) By the way, for those concerned about nudity in the show, it's not a significant issue at the Strand Theater. There isn't much of it, and the proscenium stage means that no one is all that close to the one male character who bares all.
Here are a couple of local reviewers who praised the play's San Francisco tour stop:
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/27/review-small-mouth-sounds-roars-into-act/
http://www.sfgate.com/performance/article/ACT-s-play-about-silent-retreat-communicates-12313014.php
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