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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 1, 2007
Closed Feb 11, 2007

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http://www.charlesmee.com

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

This world premiere movement-theatre composition by Charles L. Mee filters the voices of Proust, Ginsberg, and others into a powerful testament of our collective human need to remember and represent life's passing. Gone spins the dreams and recollections of our most intimate collective memories into a moving physical theatre work of subtle emotion and haunting beauty.

The piece was written for his long-time patron Richard Fisher, who died in 2004.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



59E59 Theaters
59 E 59th St
New York, NY 10022


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

Director Kenn Watt has pulled out nearly every avant-garde trick in the book to prop up his world premiere staging of Charles L. Mee's Gone. Actors speak softly into microphones, live video is projected onto portions of the set, seemingly random dance breaks interrupt the action, and much, much more. Unfortunately, most of it fails to illuminate the text and comes across as a desperate attempt to make the production entertaining. It fails to do so, further rendering a disservice to what could have been a thoughtful and elegiac meditation on loss and grief.

The cast of six -- Jennifer Wright Cook, Pam Diem, Signe V. Harriday, Clark Huggins, Jake Manabat, and Peter Richards -- are intermitten[...]


Reviewed by Dan Bacalzo on Feb 3, 2007

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