Playing Rough
PianoFight gets out of the Tenderloin for a weekend to frolic in the wilds of West Marin.
Read my feature in today’s Marin Independent Journal. Read more
Talk and Talk and Talk About a Revolution
Shotgun Players is taking on The Coast of Utopia,Tom Stoppard’s mammoth trilogy about the budding Russian intellectual life of the mid-19th century, planting seeds for the revolution that will come much later. Having done chapter one, Voyage, last year, Shotgun now presents part two, Shipwreck, in repertory with a limited revival of Voyage. My review‘s up on KQED Arts for the intrepid explorer.
Shaggy Duck Story
It’s not every weekend I see a ballet-horror-comedy about killer ducks that “skeletonize” unsuspecting theater geeks and impregnate humans with spores that cause ducks to burst forth from their asses in a spray of blood and intestines. You might think it would be, because that sounds pretty solidly up my alley, but in fact no. Duck Lake, now playing at the Jewish Theatre under the auspices of PianoFight, bills itself as “probably the world’s first ballet-horror-comedy,” and seeing as how I can’t think of any examples to contradict that, I’ll go along with it.
