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The internet is a monster

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Octet, by Dave Malloy, opened at Crow’s Theatre on Wednesday evening.  I guess it’s Crow’s big musical this year; a kind of follow up to Pierre, Natasha and the Great Comet, but it’s actually a very different kind of show.  One major difference is musical.  All the singing is a capella which puts extra demands on the singers (and isn’t unpleasantly loud).  The whole cast; eight of course, are really rather good singers and pull off the solo and ensemble numbers extremely well.  They can also act and they are backed up by a really effective lighting plot Imogen Wilson) and video (Nathan Bruce) that pretty much replace the set, which is pretty basic.

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Comfort Food – less than the sum of the parts?

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Comfort Food; written by Zorana Sadiq and directed by Mitchell Cushman, opened in the Studio at Crow’s theatre on Friday evening.  Itdescribes itself as an exploration of “the delicacy of familial love” told via the intersecting stories of Bette (Zorana Sadiq) and her teenage son  Kit  (Noah Grittani).  Bette is a single mother and the host of a TV cooking show that has seen better days.  Kit is a high school student who is trying to be a climate change activist (mostly virtually).

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Armadillos

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Armadillos by Colleen Wagner opened at Factory Theatre last night.  It’s really quite complex and I’m grateful for having had the opportunity to meet with cast and crew to discuss it last week.  It’s simultaneously a play about two different takes on the myth of Peleus and Thetis and a sort of meta-theatrical questioning of which stories we tell and how they affect us.  In the process it examines ideas about the origins of patriarchy and oonsent/non-consent in sexual relations.

Mirabella Sundar Singh - photo by Jeremy Mimnagh

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MixTape

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MixTape opened at Crow’s Theatre last night.  It’s a one woman show conceived, written and performed by Zorana Sadiq.  It’s a complex show and I describe it with some trepidation a i think the whole is considerably greater than the sum of the parts into which I must decompose it.  Structurally it’s a mixture of story telling, stand up comedy, recital and recorded music facilitated by Sadiq’s training as a classical singer; Master of Music as she half proudly, half tongue in cheek informs us at one point.  The music is eclectic; ranging from Neil Diamond and Michael Jackson to Messiaen and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.  It all points to life stages and life events and to a growing realisation that music, and indeed sound, can be much more than we imagine in our first explorations of it.  Some of the music is recorded but much is performed, expertly, by Sadiq.  There are also, of course, references to the infamous “mx tape” and the limitations of cassette tape technology.

1 Zorana Sadiq in MIXTAPE. photo by Aleksandar Antonijevic

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