![]() Role, baritone Jonathan Wilson grants us another pitch-perfect performance. Whiskers is another star in her crown of unique characterizations. Storefront opera scene in Chicago look forward to every performance given byīorn, and while this piece doesn’t show off her silky soprano, her murderous Instrument and calculated winking at the material. Integral to the success of the production as soprano Kelsea Webb’s flowing Schlossberg’s pungent instrument and wild, wide-eyed portrayal are as Includes countertenor Eric Schlossberg as the Owner, Kelsea Webb as his Wife,Īngela Born as a cat called Whiskers, and Jonathan Wilson as the erstwhile Us to normalize shocking cross-species killings and welcome into our familiesĮven the most vicious of kitties, this is one irreverent, dark comedy. With his trajectory determined by those on the other side of the footlights.įiction in its refusal to take itself seriously and, in so doing, allowing Unknown location, unable to communicate without singing his every utterance, Proximity, The Man in this piece IS the audience, waking to find himself in an As if the audienceĭoesn’t already enjoy sufficient entry into a storefront production by very Successful thirty-minutes of provocative entertainment. Who Woke Up, and the integration of those capabilities leads to a highly Understandable, no matter the cacophony Siegel brought to play at the most Peckham’s diction was particularly polished he was always Instrumentalists - supporting when appropriate and stepping to the center in Their musicianship was as exacting as that of the six Mezzo-soprano Liana Gineitis and tenor Matthew Peckham, moving fluidlyīetween supporting roles and vocal members of the orchestra, were outstanding ![]() Of who he might have called his soul-mate, had he believed in such a fragile Outpouring of a new passion that resonated within the professor at the meeting Possessed of a towering physicality and voice, Roberts’ portrait gushes the Bass-baritone William Roberts is splendid as Heidegger. Than telling with gestures, and allowing her lush instrument to sing theĬharacter’s heart. Gives a generous, internal performance as Arendt, showing with glances rather Rhythms set against sonorous chordal structuring highlight the passionateĬonfusion, refusing to salve with a solid, particular vocabulary. Season we see characters based on real-life individuals being attracted to their Meets and procures the supervision of her doctoral dissertation by the married,Ĭatholic, academic-star, Professor Heidegger. The discrepancies between a left-leaning, atheistic German Jewish Arendt as she Older, jaded, established poet and an open-hearted student of the art, Zsuzsanna As Adonis sang the correspondence between an Street began earlier in this season with composer Clint Boronzi’s When Adonis Calls, the audience is onceĪgain the fly on the wall as two lovers who in actuality spend more time withĮach other in the bed of correspondence are revealed flesh-to-flesh. Building on a theme of theĮxchange of letters between a younger “student” and an older “teacher” that Thompson ![]() Musings on the walls of the greater collective. Their writing, creating words or new amalgams thereof to paint their innermost Pathways for thinking, philosophers must use the very tools of Shakespeare in Precept in the composition and appreciation of poetry. free will, but within a very different, highly comedic paradigm. The Man Who Woke Up also theorizes about fate vs. Arendt escaped the Nazi ovens while Heidegger joined The Party, albeit for a short time. With internal and shared conversation around the definition of being, choice, and the greater consciousness of personhood, and what might be labelled as divergent concepts of a person’s need for, or even the ability to successfully exercise, an ideal of self-directed democracy against the potential of a natural gravitation toward a structure of autocracy, their musings are as immediate today as the headlines in the evening edition. In The Hat: Arendt Meets Heidegger, today’s theatre explorer will meet two of the most important philosophers (even if Arendt’s philosophy was to embrace the annihilation thereof) of our time as they discover each other’s unorthodox mental processes and embark on a relationship which shapes their intellectual gymnastics for the remainder of their careers.
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