"Constellations" at Cockroach Theatre has left me starry-eyed.
Tonight I was taken on a journey through the vast, infinite space of my emotional inner-life by a production so pure in form, intention and technique that I am left stunned as if for the first time by all that is possible by two people expressing themselves together on an empty stage. I am amazed by the playwright, Nick Payne, who managed to capture the essence of a musing mind in the structure of the story, with plot points firing off in all directions at the audience like s
It is the last stand against oppression, and the first step toward freedom. It is the Theatre.
One person committing and action, in a shared space to be witnessed by someone else. It is the last stand against oppression, and the first step toward freedom. It is the Theatre. At the end of the day, when people are facing a problem, and all they have left is their selves to work with, they turn to acts of theatre. They suffer the irony of gathering secretly to somehow show their struggle publicly, to bring people together to invent solutions, to make a last stand for the
