Posted: 5/3/15 at 11:13pm
Saw this today.
In short The Wooster Group is doing an interpretation of of Side A of "Early Shaker Spirituals" an album of Shaker spirituals and hymns from 1976. The piece is pretty much four of the woman (including Frances Mcdormand) sitting center stage in Shaker costumes and with the assistance of in ear pieces recite the songs on the album with one member of the cast reading the liner notes between tracks, occasionally the woman switch chairs but nothing really goes on as the go through the 20 tracks until the very end where everything get cleared from the stage and the woman are joined by 4 men and an additional women to essentially remix what we just heard while adding traditional shaker dancer to the proceedings.
oof, this might be one of the most pretentious things i've ever seen done in new york. Look I get Wooster is an Avante Garde theater but I just did not get the point of this, and how in gods name they got Frances McDormand involved. At 50 minutes it felt like an eternity and only at the VERY end did it start to get interesting, until it just suddenly ended.
Curious to hear from other folks that saw it.
Updated On: 5/4/15 at 11:13 PM
