John Proctor is a villain– The subtlety of the title or first line: “Gender”. A charming English lighting teacher tells it through sex primer. Later they will (happily) enter Arthur Miller’s Crucible. It’s a drama about male authority and child exploitation and leaving immediately, Kimberly’s Belford pushes her subject in our faces. A lot on the nose? OK, very good. Sometimes, cuffs are needed on Schnoz to wake up and learn. Belflower wrote the most dynamic and frustrating drama this season, a kind of education that screams teenagers keep their sane in a jerk society.
The author describes the environment of Helen County High School as the “only high school in a one-stop town” in northeast Georgia. “My dad said we have another light!” In a friend group, rich (but sweet) girl Ivy (Maggie Kuntz) pointed out that including the pure Raelynn (Amalia Yoo), Savvy Atlanta transplant Nell (Morgan Scott) and the unsafe people, Beth (Fina Strazza). Outside that female track, there are two boys, the radical Nomi Lee (Hagan Oliveras) and Mason (Nihar Duvveri), who walk out in a cold. Further away from the solar system spinning Shelby (Sadie Sink), a motorcycle hybrid of punk and Dork, who just returned from an unexplained six-month absence holiday, inspiring whispers (crash? Baby?). The fact that deepens Shelby’s isolation is that she slept with Lei Lin’s then-boyfriend Lee.
For teenagers, so much. On the adult side, there is a lively school counselor, Molly Griggs, who is seven years older than the girl, but still swims in the institution’s own student memory. Last and the slipperiest is Carter Smith (Gabriel Ebert), the presumptive adult in the room, who was initially a benevolent and authoritative figure. When Beth sees Beth between self-deprecating and Pique’s outbreak
No, no
I It doesn’t sound like I’m minimizing your feelings
To be honest?
This is really bad
Added up at that time
have a look
Let’s become a reality
I know you already know about sex…
He is the classic “cool teacher”, Mr. Smith. Dud knew the lyrics of Lorde’s “Green Light”. He appears as an ally, speaking without saying anything or pretending to know everything, treating children like an adult. Exactly how Adults are disgusting time bombs that explode when Shelby hijacks the class with explanation Crucible This points out that in 1692, young women who led witchcraft in Salem were traumatized by war, terrorism and a patriarchal culture of rape, they did not defend. Are some Puritan girls having public collapses that lead to the execution of men and women? In this case, which girl won’t get angry?
From Freud to Jiddu Krishnamurti and beyond, this question recurs: How do we judge diseases in a sick society? It is also in the British playwright Joe Penhall Blue/Orangethis was produced by the Atlantic Theater in 2002. In it, a psychiatrist treats a black British man struggling in the hospital because people realize that racism in life can trigger schizophrenia rather than neurochemistry. By contrast, Belford won’t be morbid young people, or let them just victims or hormonal freaks. Despite what the East Coast audience might expect, they are mostly expressive, smart and kind, not over-introduced or over-mediated on the phone, rather than a bunch of white Gicks who touched the Bible. This year was 2018, so they were pre-popular, but in the first wave of #MeToo in rural communities, this background has increased significantly in Shelby and others’ awakening awareness. Some girls want to form a “feminist club” and Mr. Smith volunteers are their faculty sponsors. No more gifts to the plot, just say that Belford Braids will reveal the hurt of her protagonist with great storytelling grace and humor. She obviously likes her role and gives them inner life, bursting with real, energetic performances.
I can’t over-praise the talented actors and lively work, which moves like a bullet and ends with a rebellious “Demo Day” dance that trembles your spine and tear off your cheeks. Sink and Yoo wore white farmer dress and Crucibleand then burned the house with the “Green Light” (a superb original movement provided by Tilly Evans-Krueger). The sounds, costumes and scenic design of Palmer Hefferan, Sarah Laux and Amp/teresa L. Williams are perfectly integrated into the classroom and subtle class distinction. A special compliment to the lighting goddess Natasha Katz, who keeps the crack snap of this live game for cathartic dance and illumination of shocked flashes and black effects.
from Stranger stuffWe know the sink’s “Ginger Bad” is shaking on Pat, but she proves her passionate stage performance with the same talented actor. Strazza, like Mousy, who has attracted a lot of attention from Mr. Smith, Try-Hard Beth – always pulling the sleeves on her hands, it’s a nervous twitch, a nervous twitch that shows the desire to get smaller, dismembered. Ebert excels at riding the line between friendly FOP and towering savages and ensures work (sorry, let’s face it) a monster. Since Father Flynn first faced sisters Aloisius Suspect More than 20 years ago, fighting for the safety of the innocent. Only here, there is no tolerant nun that can save the day.
between outsider and John ProctorDayna Taymor appears to be the dominant director who influenced the teenage tragedy. It makes sense: High school students are tragic heroes who are trapped in a restrictive crisis, between (perhaps) remembered by people and a future of pain and disillusionment. Soft chick molts and nails feathers soft flesh. More than a century, Frank Wedekind pointed the way with his bubble Spring Awakening;Pupils are the stove you burn to death or forge your armor. Students come in John Proctor Referring frequently to major life events is still touching: twilight They came out at the age of seven, copying their homework in the sixth grade, or being stable since the fourth grade. They recite the sweet green age, cling to their short life, and then begin new chapters that they no longer write.
John Proctor is a villain | 1 hour 45 minutes. No intermission. |Boo Theater|No. 222 West 45th Street| 212-239-6200 | Buy tickets here
