“Hum” by Sebastian Hawkes Orr, Available Light Theatre, 02/13/11

"I’ve felt so singular, so importantly sorry for myself, or so exquisitely stilled, attuned, that I knew there were night truths unavailable to lovers or the loved thought I might be close to them, and have put off sleep because sleep is social, intrusive… -Stephen Dunn, “Night Truths” “Hum” is the first theatre of the years to move me to tears more than once.  I don’t normally talk about marketing here – at least in part because I don’t know anything about marketing – but this had one of the smartest, most intriguing...

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‘L’effet de Serge by Phillipe Quesne, Wexner Center, 02/03/11

“… And what poet ever sat down in front of a Titian, pulled out his versifying tablet and began to drone?  Don’t complain, my dear, You do what I can only name. -Frank O’Hara, “To Larry Rivers” L’effet de Serge unfolds more gracefully than a clockwork rose and the fine tuning is so precise that even in surface randomness it feels like a fire-born distillation of the audience’s life.  Better, of course, but purer and while in the vein of the mumblecore filmmakers – Swanberg, Katz, Bujalski – it reaches for emotions they’ve...

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