Stopped Bridge of Dreams

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To many theatergoers, John Jesurun's multimedia work,
Stopped Bridge of Dreams, now at La MaMa, will come off as a confusingly soporific post-modern soap opera. But it may appear differently to those who view it as it unfolds at www.bridgedream.com as Jesurun also intends.

As a result, the action -- or inaction, as the case may be -- is photographed throughout by cameras behind scrims at each end of the corridor-like playing area and also from other, sometimes overhead, sometimes under chin angles.

Furthermore, because the eight-member cast is augmented by varying guests such as theater stalwarts John Kelly and Judith Malina -- who are encouraged to bring their own spontaneous notion[...]