Schützen is a performance piece that provides a uniquely insightful take on the demands made on the human body in wartime. In just over an hour, Danish performance artist Cecile Ullerup Schmidt guides her audience through a successful hybrid of education and entertainment; investigating and helping the audience investigate this subject. This smart piece is a winner.
The Wide Night Collective‘s production of British playwright Chloe Moss‘s play This Wide Night, playing at the Factory Theatre Mainspace, is a compassionate examination of life for former prisoners living on the outside. How can two women recently out of prison find ways to live happily in very difficult circumstances? The exploration of the answers to this question makes for wonderful theatre.
On the night of Saturday the 10th at 7:30 pm, The Great Hall hosted the first public performance of the musical A History of Summer. One of the three works included in Summerworks‘ Musical Works in Concert program this year, A History of Summer follows the lives and loves of LGBT vacationers on Fire Island over more than a century. The success of this epic musical as a concert-style performance makes me eager to see a full stage performance.
SideMart Theatrical Grocery‘s production of Trying for the Kingdom, playing at the Lower Ossington Theatre as part of SummerWorks is a complex, passionate multimedia theatre performance. “This is a period piece made by the future about now,” a character says at the beginning of the play for the audience’s benefit. The show quite capably manages to make a powerful presentation of just how confusing, difficult and rewarding it can be to be young and creative in the city in our era.
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