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• W977340634 abstract "Plenty of us believe that theatre can be a church, but few artists want to take that concept to its extreme by making their work a sermon, a thesis, a dedicatory testament. And it may seem crazy to claim that Nature Theater of Oklahoma's rambling epic Life and Times-an apparently indulgent ten-part saga-could possibly be an instance of any sort of self-renunciation. But usual parameters for theatre-as-entertainment or even art-as-investigation do not hold in case of this massive project in which a theatre company spends years rehearsing and performing story of a single woman. Without relinquishing a certain hipster cachet and even commercial savvy (Adidas sends them promotional tracksuits), company has taken psychological theatre's concern of investigating another's inner life and pursued it to nearly religious heights.In U.S. premiere of first four New York-based company turns its entire effort to life-so-far of company member and sometime sound designer Kristin Worrall. In 2007, one of company's co-directors, Pavol Liska, prompted Worrall with a simple question: Can you tell me your life story? Several calls and sixteen hours of conversation later, Nature Theater had text for Life and Times. Since they have only completed four parts of production, available episodes only cover Worrall's earliest memories to puberty-the completed object (she is only in her 30s) will last twenty-four hours.In these episodes, telephone conversations have been edited into a performance text, although creators Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper do so in such a way that words seem unprocessed. The piece begins with Um... So...Shall I start? and discursive memoir never loses these ellipses and hesitancies. A cast of ten actors and three musicians then perform these words-in first two episodes, text serves as a libretto, while in third and fourth, text is spoken, exchanged among cast members as though it were dramatic dialogue. It never is, of course. It is only Worrall, always Worrall, remembering and remembering and remembering.The Under Radar Festival at New York's Public Theater, coproducing with off-Broadway Soho Rep, presented Life and Times: Episodes 1-4 in January 2013, allowing audiences to experience pieces individually on weeknights or in a marathon, back-to-back sequence on weekend. Nature Theater is a much-beloved company that has been building works and touring in Europe since 2009, so perhaps its audiences were already primed to love and feel grateful for production. Even so, it was surprising to many that this frequently alienating, somewhat demanding epic spurred critical paeans and packed houses.This may be because it is also, luckily, presented as a great big pile of silliness, reeking of good will. Liska and Copper's Nature Theatre of Oklahoma (Putting w in mellowdrama since 1995 according to their website) likes to take found verbatim texts and filter them through an exaggerated performance style. The first of two sung sections feels like a pop-musical with ten-actor cast bopping through choreography rich in shrugs, mimed running, and enthusiastic pointing. [Photo 1] For second, we're in a kind of neo-'80s musical, a disco ball sparkling overhead. The cast serves us hot dogs in one break, then urges brownies on us in another. Several of performers engender such affection that their mere presence resets our attention odometers. Their star actor, Anne Gridley, has always worked with dogged, splendid intensity-and it's delightful to see her engaged in another unselfconscious portrait of painful effort. Watching her can feel as thrilling as watching a child in a recital: we vicariously experience her heartfelt, go-for-broke-ness. Rachel Anderson-Rabern in TDR called group's work the aesthetics of fun, (81) and joy is very much on creators' minds.Yet piece's ambition trumps its pleasures at every turn-which I do mean as a compliment. …" @default.
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