Finally got around to seeing Monsters of the Sea (III): endofplay/7 at Space 55, I knew nothing about the play aside from seeing what their set looked like when I was working at the theater, and the set alone made me keen to see it (it looks kinda like if Michel Gondry designed one of the cave/tunnels from Alien and Sigmund Freud decided to move into the Gondry cave and start a practice in there). The play lived up to the set and then some: it was one of the best pieces of theater Ive seen this year. The set, the lighting, the cast, the writing (dense and poetic enough that I really, really wished I had a copy of the script I could take home and read, and thats not something I feel about most plays*): everything about it was on-point and excellent. Do I understand what I watched? Not really: if I tried to describe what I just watched, I would sound like I had a bad acid trip. But God, was it fun to watch. It was a bit like watching a 60s era Godard film: there are these patches of philosophical ruminations and meta-wink-wink political commentary, and then there are these moments of dancing, comedy and goofy yeah-we-know-this-is-absurd tips of the hats to the audience. It was the kind of performance that wasnt afraid to be arty and weird, but also wasnt afraid to poke fun at itself and just be silly, too. So yeah: I STRONGLY recommend it. And lest words like arty and weird frighten you: this play is HILARIOUS. :) *To clarify: Ive seen all sorts of theater where the writing is dynamite, but with this play there was so much strong writing that I know I missed some stuff (much like the problem with watching a Marx Bros film for the first time: there are so many jokes I end up missing half of them because Im laughing at the other half).
Posted on: Sun, 25 May 2014 06:20:56 +0000
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