The “Space” cast is reviewed here.ĭany Margolies is a Los Angeles-based writer. Most entertaining might be the opportunity to make a mask, imagining what creatures on other planets might look like. Naturally the traveling trio brings back Father (Clayton McInerney) for a very happy ending - even though, as most of us know, terrible darkness still lurks out there.įor fun before the show, the lobby can barely contain all the displays and activities the Playhouse provides. Rebecca Hairston’s lighting design can too-brightly flash but certainly adds excitement, particularly when it helps create IT, the brain that thinks for its planet’s citizenry so they don’t have to. Whatsit is a glory of mismatched yet appealing, layered yet unrestricting outfits.Īll is highlighted by original music, composed by Sean Paxton, in a pleasing mix of 1970s synthesizer and sci-fi eerie exhilaration. Calvin has his letterman’s jacket, Aunt Beast has her furriness, and Mrs. Most effective at bringing all the characters to life are the costume designs, by Vicki Conrad. Who and the extraordinarily maternal Aunt Beast and even more by Thomas, who makes a hilarious pratfalling clown, and an eccentric but beautiful-on-the-inside fairy godmother. He is helped a good amount by Chalker, who doubles as the entertaining eyeglasses-wearing Mrs. Lebano nicely brings the book to theatrical life, seasoning the stage with humor and keeping the action bubbling along. Whatsit (Lena Thomas), a wonderfully peculiar stranger he found during his wanderings in the neighboring woods. With hot cocoa and sandwiches, he welcomes Meg and their mother (Kristyn Chalker) into the cozy kitchen.Ĭharles Wallace then introduces them to Mrs. Meg’s 5-year-old brother, Charles Wallace Murry (Boone Grigsby), preternaturally sensing and intelligent, has been expecting her. Meg can’t sleep, so she heads downstairs (a delightful moment between Jo and the stairway video of set- and projection designer Matthew G. That’s when we first meet our protagonist, Meg Murry (Cate Jo). It was a dark and stormy night, as we are told by the narrators, the printed words projected onto the set, and Christopher Moscatiello’s excellent sound design. Director Christian Lebano uses six actors to create the story’s many characters, and he establishes the many settings using a translucent set with doors and windows cut into it. The novel - about time-and-space travel, good and evil, growing up as our authentic selves at our own pace, family and friendship and more - has been adapted for the stage by John Glore. Whether L’Engle’s deeper messages could possibly have been woven through what is essentially young persons’ theater - though a delight for adults, too - remains a reason for long chats after the show. I would like to see it in full swing and would happily try it again if this were the case, but for now I can only confess to being deeply disappointed.Imaginative direction, striking designs and two vivid performances bring the thrilling journey of Madeleine L’Engle’s science-fantasy novel “A Wrinkle in Time” to life onstage at Sierra Madre Playhouse. Perhaps we just got the right place on the wrong night, twice. Thinking that Tuesday was perhaps just a quiet night, or that maybe we were just there too early for people coming out of clubs, I went back the next night slightly later this time even after knocking for almost ten minutes no one came up to let me in. So we sat and drank our beers in silence, slightly awkwardly. I asked why we couldn’t play music, explaining that I was a professional musician, and still he refused. We ordered beer, which was reasonably priced, and I reached for a guitar before being scolded by the staff member. We went down the stairs to find the place completely empty, with another staff member sleeping down a closed off corridor. After knocking for about five minutes, someone came and opened the door sleepily to let us in. Although this should be the perfect time according to the locals we asked, the building seemed abandoned when we arrived. We did not end up leaving the hostel until late anyway. It sounded like a lot of fun and like the perfect place for a nocturnal and spontaneous troubadour to spend some time. A place where locals all go for the afterparty and stay all night until the morning. A popular twenty four hour jazz bar with musical instruments hanging on the walls that people regularly jam to. In theory, Pink Houdini sounded like the perfect place in Sarajevo.
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