Everything Freezes: another winter's tale
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 26, 2009
Closed Apr 5, 2009
Opened Feb 26, 2009
Closed Apr 5, 2009
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Sideshow Theatre Company presents Everything Freezes: another winter's tale, co-written by Artistic Director Jonathan L. Green and Literary Manager Walt McGough, with an inspirational assist from William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. In the midst of a tragic tale of jealousy, a marble statue comes to life and kind of distracts everybody. Two families struggle for normalcy in a world where resurrections, hauntings, and a very real miracle are suddenly par for the course.
Everything Freezes takes the characters of Shakespeare's Winter's Tale and propels them into new lives. King Leontes and Queen Hermione find their lives rent asunder by jealousy. But when an unexplained miracle seems to set things right, the royal family is left not with closure, but a mountain of new questions. Dragged into the fray is their best friend Polixenes, along with the children of both families, who seem far better suited to life in a magic world. Blows are dealt, lives are lost, and the rules of reality bend and break in this off-beat and moving comedy about what family means in the face of the unknown.
What are other members saying?
RE:Striking Riff on Shakespearean "Problem Play"
SideShows first play, Dante Dies! grabbed you by the heart; this new gentler play haunts you and forces you to wonder how much you resemble the overly rational King Leontes. The play is not an adaptation of Winters Tale; instead Green and McGough take one of Shakespeares odder moments a statue comes to life and builds it into a metaphor for our collective inability to participate fully into the miracles of our lives. The play is most likely too long but ultimately, through the use of genuine poetic language and stage images, it builds to a sophisticated, lump in your throat conclusion that is both smart and emotionally sound. This is oddball, risky theater that despite its quirky, usually presentational style, involves the audience in the problems the playwrights want to explore. I recommend it and advise allowing the play to take you where it will.
Reviewed by bohemian58
on Monday, Mar 9th, 2009
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