Reverend Billy creates a church, a congregation, this is true preaching, saying what needs to be said. Finding the words in the moment, so that what might be pastiche in less potent hands is delivered with the full force of conviction, with the urgency of the need to save us from ourselves. Only this is […]
Writings
Ellie Stamp: Are You Lonesome Tonight?
August 20th, 2014 by Edward RapleyWhichever way you add the numerals of your birth date together they will come to the same thing. You add and add until you reach a single digit. That number is you, you are that number. This is fate, this means something, the day you were born sets you on a path. Thus the laws […]
Lynn Ruth Miller: Not Dead Yet
August 19th, 2014 by Carran WaterfieldThere is nothing better than sitting at the feet of an elder telling you the story of her life. This particular elder, Lynn Ruth Miller, is a wonderfully natural storyteller. A person’s life is unique and you know you are getting a unique experience here. She enters the tiny space with the audience forming a […]
Wunderbaum: Looking for Paul
August 19th, 2014 by Edward RapleyA cheerful woman is driven into a baleful rage by public art she cannot escape, the company enters the stage to sit and read through all the emails they sent regarding their residency in LA, and finally they present the show they have been working on. This is the potted synopsis. Every moment of this […]
MurleyDance: Object of My Affection
August 19th, 2014 by Edward RapleyMurleyDance present three distinct pieces of choreography, performed by highly trained ballet dancers. There is the sublime precision of line you would expect, just as there is control and exactitude in the execution of the smallest elements of the work. Ballet, like any activity refined beyond the realm of normality to the height of its […]
