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Subject: Quicktake - "All This Flying, All This Tumbling Down" by Dario Fo & Franca Rame
Date: Thurs, Nov 2, 1:02 AM
Quicktake on ALL THIS FLYING, ALL THIS TUMBLING DOWN
Works by Nobel Laureate Dario Fo have been scarce on the American Stage since his injudicious remarks made after 9/11. Whistler in the Dark, who've previously been seen mostly at the Charlestown Working Theatre, have prepared four monodramas by the old clown and his wife/partner, Franca Rame, and taken them on the road. They're performing in various venues in Boston and Cambridge. The translations are by Gillian Hanna and Amy Nora Long. Meg Taintor directs three actors, two seen previously with Whistler in the Dark, Lorna McKenzie and Jennifer O'Connor, and Nikki Carroll, an Aussie who toured last year for Shakespeare & Co. Each woman does one solo piece, the trio combines for the final piece, "All Women Have the Same Story," a surrealistic fairy tale.
The first monodrama, "Rise and Shine" features O'Carroll as a woman so frazzled by work, an infant, and an inconsiderate husband that she feels she's going mad as she hurries to get ready for work. The second, "A Woman Alone" is an entire domestic melodrama with Lorna McKenzie, really going mad cooped up in her apartment with a crying baby and an invalid brother-in-law, being stared at by a pervert with binoculars, badgered by obscene phone calls, and pursued by an unwanted lover. Jennifer O'Connor is "Alice in Wonderless Land" succumbing to temptations and the modern world in ways which have made Lewis Carroll faint. Costumes are mainly lingerie and few accouterments chosen by Kelly Leigh David, the set is two translucent screen which can be used for shadows, and the interlude sounds are a danceable mixtrack. The show works surprisingly well in the informal atmosphere of a nightspot. Fo would approve. Be sure to check the group's website for directions to venues and any schedule changes. The tour wraps up Friday the 10th at the Charlestown Working Theatre.
"All This Flying, All This Tumbling Down" by Dario Fo & Franca Rame, Oct.24 - Nov. 9
Whistler in the Dark at Charles Playhouse Lounge, Midway Cafe (JP), Zeigeist (Camb), Art&Soul (Camb.), The Vault(Lynn Arts), and Charlestown WT
check website for directions; (866) 811- 4111
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