"WITHOUT WHY "
a play by John Dotson
MPC Players at Carl Cherry Hall, Carmel
September 2007
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CAST Galileo Caviot ....... John Dotson Directed by |
inspired by the 17the century German mystic poet, Angelus Silesius,
who wrote: "the rose is without why: it blooms because it blooms."
REVIEW Dotson attempts in his original stage piece to contrast the mental madness of the 21st century with this perennial concept of pure being . . . (The lead character's) combined anxieties are exacerbated by an apparent addiction to his laptop and cell phone, which he can't seem to put down in spite of the fact that he is surrounded by the beauty and tranquility of nature in New York's Central Park. .. [This is shown through] an artistically rewarding multi-media experience of the park, with appealing images and sounds along with clever staging of cell phone conversations behind scrims . . . Carratello's "Chante" added spark to the show as the patient friend back at [Galileo's] apartment trying to solve the parrot problem [Euclid, the parrot, was annoying everyone with its car alarm imitations]. Barbara Rose Shuler |
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