If the theme of last week’s theater reviews could be summarized as “the playfulness is the thing,” this week’s two plays counter with the declaration that “the performance is the thing.”
Only a couple of weeks ago, the Aurora Fox’s Studio Theatre was the site of another one-performer show, “Acts of Faith.” The Fox’s back-to-back programming underscores what an inviting space this black box is for the intimacy of solo works of spare if evocative design. Here, scenic designer Brandon Philip Case, lighting designer Brett Maughan and sound designer Joseph Lamar create a subtle set that holds space for words.
Quintana rallies, then falls ill again. Though her first memoir was finished before Quintana’s death, the play incorporates it. The deaths of husband and child are emotionally unimaginable. “The Year of Magical Thinking” is about revising but also coming to accept that which cannot really be revised or reversed, except perhaps in the telling and retelling.Josie and father Phil Hogan make a formidable, at times humorous team in “A Moon for the Misbegotten.
Kendall is good at bluster, blarney and contrition, all qualities he’ll tap into as Phil starts to believe that his landlord and drinking buddy Jim Tyrone really plans to go back on his promise to sell the farm to him. Fearing this, Phil enlists Josie in a seduction. At first, she doesn’t believe that Jim would betray his world — and then she does.
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