Storm Still
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 19, 2011
Closed Mar 6, 2011
Opened Feb 19, 2011
Closed Mar 6, 2011
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Outside an abandoned school, war rages. Inside, three kids perform King Lear, unsupervised, for years. Further inside, the mad King debates the purpose of theatre with his Fool, a licensed therapist.
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Storm Still, the latest creation of Nonsense Company writer/performers Rick Burkhardt, Andy Gricevich, and Ryan Higgins now at P.S. 122, strings together a series of seemingly disconnected scenes riffing on and deconstructing King Lear at an alarmingly fast and free-associative pace. And while the two-hour piece could be edited, the final result is an impressive exploration of one of Shakespeare's most misunderstood kings.
Not surprisingly, the show can be disorientingly dense -- especially in the beginning as fragments of scenes unfold in rapid fire, switching between the text of Lear, children performing the play in a sort of mythical limbo, and the characters of the play undergoing psy[...]