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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
Play: The Falls of Vincent Millay
Reviewer: Kate
3 Stars
I was seriously looking forward to some Millay loving. I have always been
a fan of her poetry and was excited to get a bit of her biography as well.
Though the piece has some lovely writing (both Edna's AND the playwrights) it was rather hard to follow. The performance art aspect of movement and breathing started off promising. I loved the scarves and their usage. But, then, it petered off. It seemed that they had one idea that just became less and less interesting as the play wore on. It never went far enough in any direction to really capture my imagination.
All that being said Lesli Brownlee is AMAZING. I want to BE her. In fact, all of the performances were spot on and engaging, I just wish the overall production had made stronger choices.
Play: The Falls Of Vincent Millay
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.