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1 Quandary Place
Abundance
ADVENTURES OF A SUBSTITUTE TEACHER
Barroom Philosophers
Border Crossings
Class Notes
Embarrassment & Death
The Falls of Vincent Millay
Found and Lost: Goals for 2002
Frisco Fred's Cabaret!
Fuck You Cancer
Great Hymn of Thanksgiving / Conversation
Storm
The Hasheesh Eater
Heavy Metal Playground
HER KIND: The Life & Poetry of Anne
Sexton
i hate my friends
Jesus Rant
Kiss My Booth
Korean Badass
Low Hanging Fruit
Monkey Poet Stand-Up!
Organic Boxed Chicken Stock
parts is parts:
Party of One
RM3
The Sewers
Shopping as a Spiritual Path
Spotless
Stetson Manifesto
A Strange Black Passion
Super Glossy!
TeleMongol
Terrible Voice
Tesla's White Pigeon
Turn of the Screw
You Go First
Reviewer: RRR's picks
4 Stars
A Dynamic Whallop from a Petite Actress
When the play began with a woman standing on a table and a man stage right and a woman stage left on wooden boxes I thought I was in for some existential bore. But was I wrong! Ms. Lesli Brownlee took off with a script that immediately had me laughing and watching Edna St. Vincent Millay scamper all about the stage enthralled me to no end. I was captured And the more Ms. Brownlee got into her character the more I wanted to meet her personally. Ms. Millay that is. Ms. Brownlee gave such life to the character that I just wanted to cheer her independence. Five stars for Ms. Lesli Brownlee's performance.
Dan DeJaeger did a good job of narrating and playing different personalities in Ms. Millay's life with a strong and 'hearable' voice. Is that a word? Hearable? Actors... pick up your voice. Louder Please! And that was a slight problem with SG Lee's performance. In her sweetness and kindness and sexual roles and matter of fact narrations I found myself leaning forward to hear. And this only four rows back.
The show itself makes it on the script written for the Millay character, some of the other parts take us away from the dynamics created by Ms. Brownlee's portrayal. And I had wondered whether this good beginning could get better and then have a grand finale. But alas it never got there. For some reason the art of movement was brought into the equation and when the lights dimmed and these minutes of semi-choreographed movement sections came the excitement and energy of the beginning also dimmed. This play is about words, an author's words. Give Ms. Brownlee more words, she does wonders with them.