A segued piece by the CalArts School of Theatre combining 2 plays , the first segment has 3 brash confident looking roaring twenties dudettes entwined in pregnant pauses ; pulling faces and other almost but not quite there communications.Not a little different to social networking sites style we have today.Superficially they seem to be almost together , but the substance is a freefall.
The second half provides the other great counterpoint to modern communication as the characters are joined by some others obliged to make a spectacle of themselves.Loud incoherent shouting replaces the silence , but the lack of substance shines on like a lamplight left in a dark deserted corner."Look at us! Be with us! We are fun AND useful!" is the running theme as the protagonists veer from the Facebook style non-contact contact sport to the Big Brother style "your in my face , get out of my way , but please dont leave , i need you to be the screen to my film".
The Play and cast do pointingly capture and convey the theme of "the Need to be with" with a light , though stimulating thoughtpiece staging.Very apt and highly amusing play , though its main strength is a bitter aftertaste of aching Angst it leaves one with when they consider their own modern scoreboard on relationships needing tinkering and a whole lot of work in one direction or the other..
Would you not have preferred to be gulping some food down in the Hilton yesterday rather than watching paint dry?
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