THE POSSIBILITIES

From: "will stackman" profwlll@yahoo.com

Subject: Quicktake - "The Possibilities" by Howard Barker

Date: Sat, Feb 11,10:44 PM

Quicktake on THE POSSIBILITIES

     Social conscious theatre continues at CWT with a new company, Whistler In The Dark, presenting English poet and playwright Howard Barker's series of moral fables, "The Possibilities", an ensemble show originally created by The Wrestling School, an experimental theatre group in London. These hard edged intellectual pieces, the bloody-minded British equivalent of Brecht's Lehrstuck, resonate with current worldwide unrest even more than they did in the '90s when they were written. The name of the group, incidentally, comes from an admonition in one of the two poems used to introduce the show.

     An ensemble, four women and three men, mostly recent theatre grads, present these pieces briskly under the direction of Meg Taintor, the group's Co-Artistic Director. The cast includes Timothy F. Hoover, seen at TheatreZone last season as Tom Joad, Brian Quint who just did "Romance 101" with Lowell's new Image Theatre, and very tall Andrew Winson who was in the Theatre Coop's "Our Country's Good" last fall. Sarah Huling most recently appeared with the Czech-American Marionette Theatre in "The Book of Esther", Lorna McKenzie has worked with Footlight, Walpole, Medway, and Destruction, Jennifer O'Connor was also seen in TheatreZone's "Grapes of Wrath" while Sarah Pauline Robinson graduated from Brandeis/Theatre Arts last May. WITD has assembled a good ensemble of physical actors for their first effort. Their next one will be Eric Overmeyer's "In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe."

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"The Possibilities" by Howard Barker, Feb.11 - Mar. 4

Whistler in the Dark at Charlestown Working Theatre

442 Bunker Hill Ave., Charlestown (617) 945 - 9033
Whistler In The Dark