People Are Talking: UMS presents Ryoji Ikeda’s...
Posted: 10/31/14
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People Are Talking: UMS presents Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company: Untitled Feminist Show:
The miming in many of the sketches was not clear enough to understand the points. The concept of the play is fine, it just needs some clearer direction.
People Are Talking: UMS presents National Theatre of Scotland: Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol:
We hope they come back next year.
Jim and Molly Walker
People Are Talking: UMS presents National Theatre of Scotland: Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol:
A truly unusual and original presentation of the Christmas Carol that no other group has done. The cast really had fun engaging with the audience. The almost invisible appearances and disappearances of the cast and puppets added to the ghostly and magical quality of the performance. Having each small audience group be applauded was unique and engaging.
People Are Talking: Richard III & The Comedy of Errors:
We walked out at intermission, and would have walked out halfway through the first act if we had not had to disturb so many people. We liked the idea of an all-male cast as in Shakespeare’s time and the diction was fine. But the overall performance was hard to follow and when the audience laughed at the final, bloody murder with the completely out-of-place-and-time chainsaw at the end of the first act, it felt more like a gruesome comedy.
It just did not work for us at all.