Samuel Beckett's Play and Theatre II.Director: Ryan Hawkins
Performers: Maggie Jansse, Mallory Prise, Kate Billison, Ryan Hawkins, Kristen Payette, Anna Kuhnen
An evening of absurdist theatre.
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I'm a big fan of absurdist theatre, but this evening didn't grab me as I had hoped. Even theatre of the absurd has to be done carefully, and with precision -- perhaps more-so since it doesn't have the easier-to-follow structure and story-line.
Unfortunately, this student-directed series of short plays seemed to be about a series of tableaus rather than a carefully constructed set of plays. I never got a sense that the actors understood what they were doing -- they were reciting strange lines. What is the purpose? Why are they saying what they're saying?
It was a tough evening to sit through.
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