A busy, rewarding A&E weekend included Butler University's charming--and sold out--"As You Like It," the final performance of "Neat" at the IRT, "The Storytelling Ability of a Boy" at the Phoenix Theatre (yes, it's one of the worst titles I've heard in a long time, but an engaging play) and my first encounter with No Exit TheatreCompany, performing at Big Car Gallery.
Speaking of galleries, it was also First Friday weekend, which included a stop at the Harrison Center's exhibition of works by Emma Overman and a look at Matthew Steele's sculptures at the Dean Johnson Gallery on Mass Ave.
All that, and a Saturday in Medora, IN, as a judge at the National Maple Syrup Festival (which continues next weekend).
So I suppose you can understand why I slept in today.
I'll be writing about some of the above in upcoming blogs and in the print IBJ.
In the meantime, what did you get to this weekend?
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THe staging and lighting drew the audience into the darkness of Man's mind and the bits of light and wisdom that he shared with the audience.
THis play challenges the audeince not only to look deeper into the soul of man, but to also look deeper into their own soul.
Jonah's performance of man is absolutely birlliant and awe inspiring. If you like the type of theater that is shallow and bright this play is not for you, but if you are one who willing to go on the Journey with Man (Jonah)you will discover a deeper side of your soul.
I highly recommend the show
Any relation to the Coyne who is doing marketing work for the Indy Fringe Theatre shows?
Just checking. I prefer when such connections are disclosed.
Thanks
--Lou
It has an emotional arc rather than a storytelling arc, I think, if that makes sense, but it is also more than just a performance of several hip-hop poems put together. The other theatrical elements - set, sound, lighting, costuming - plus the nuances in the portrayal by the solo actor, Jonah Winston, all combine to make you feel as if you are truly hanging out with a drunk/shamanic homeless/guru guy for an hour or so. It is both scary and inspiring, a very satisfying hour of performance art.
Let's see...this past weekend I saw and enjoyed the opening of "The Storytelling Ability of a Boy" at the Phoenix. Detailed thoughts about it are now up on my blog.
I also saw the opening night of the Epilogue Players' production of "To Kill a Mockingbird." I am not going to have time to write a full review it, but I will tell you that I was weeping by the end of it.
I am no longer on a book award committee so my reading time is mostly my own now. I am having a great time reading whatever I feel like reading.
In the past month I have re-read Mario Puzo's The Godfather just because, and the first and fifth books in Jean Auel's series that begins with The Clan of the Cave Bear because the concluding tome is supposed to be published this month.
I also read Saved, by Jack Falla, because I recently became a Tampa Bay Lightning hockey fan. I want to go to an Indianapolis Ice game, too, before the season is over, but this is not a conflict of interest, right, because they are in different leagues?
Anyway, Saved is a novel about a goalie for the Boston Bruins, but still, it gives a fascinating look into what it is like to be a pro hockey player on any team (and maybe what it is like to be a sports writer, which is what Jack Falla was before he became a novelist, I think.)
Hope Baugh
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Peggy Coyne does not work for IndyFringe. She is my mother, who saw diaspora and wanted to contribute her ideas to our theatre scene.
Katelyn
Thanks for clarifying. Since you did help market this show for Indy Fringe, I hope you can understand my need to push for open disclosure in these blog posts.
I'm glad she enjoyed the play.
--Lou