I caught Anthony Giardina’s City of Conversation at Horizon Theatre yesterday evening and I have to say that it is the prefect venue for a show like this. The play takes place entirely in a living room and the positioning of seating around two ‘walls’ made for an intimate, almost voyeuristic view into the lives of this Georgetown family.
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The Disappointing Play:
A review in the form of a hastily and poorly written sonnet
By Robbie Clark
Tonight I saw Red-Eye to Havre de Grace,
On the last days of one Edgar A. Poe.
It was done by Lucidity Suitcase,
And I fear that it was only so-so.
Music too simple and too green for me.
The Writing was so nearly good, a shame.
What they wanted to do, we all could see,
But they fell short: just disappointment came.
Although with blocking fine and stage craft slick,
Movement was done deliberate and slow,
So weak despite, sometimes, a clever trick,
The script: only fair with talent less so.
Potential lost, it was almost so good,
But, sadly, not realized as it should.
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Even if you’ve seen it before, Atlanta Shakespeare’s production of “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)” is worth seeing. They do an even better job than they did when I saw them put it on several years ago and it’s updated a bit in a way that keeps it relevant and hilarious.
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I think that I summed up my response to Atlanta Shakespeare’s production of “Coriolanus” best when I told my companion for the evening that I enjoyed the performance but not the interpretation. Continue reading