Comments on Sight Unseen
"The play was wonderful!"
"What a great show you put on last night..we’re still talking about it."
"If it looks like a pork chop, and kicks like a pork chop, it’s probably a pork chop."
"I thought the play was GREAT Saturday night. I really got into the characters and the themes and was entranced the whole time. It was intense, captivating and very thought-provoking. The actors were top-notch and reached their full potential due to your excellent directing. I simply did not want the play to end."
"Great show tonight! John & I actually did something we never do as we drove home…theorized on the motives of characters. Very thought provoking and well done!"
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Sight Unseen is exciting. It’s not because of explosions, or gunpoint kidnappings, or roller coasters with loops, or anything that you would normally think of when you think of “exciting.” It’s the kind of exciting that makes reality TV and low-brow talk shows exciting. IT IS TENSE. The whole time. It’s exhausting!
The emotional stakes are so high. Characters invade each other’s comfort with little thought of anything beyond what they want- be they in the little English house or the London gallery. Everyone is out for themselves.
I found myself laughing at inappropriate times. It’s because the tactics are so ruthless and yet so subtle. I feel that if I had seen the same show take place with an audience a-la Jerry Springer (or the Restoration Theatre Era) there would have been not a still person in the place. Everyone would be up yelling for the character with which they most sympathized! It would’ve been pandemonium.
I must say that I saw it twice, (both matinees, naturally) and I found that when the actors indulged the electric silences, at the same rhythm at which they delivered their lines, I became so emotionally engaged that I could hardly sit still. I would stop breathing and just hold out for the reaction. All three characters are well developed both in the script as well as by the actors.
Is this the feel-good theatrical production of the year? Only if you enjoy experiencing catharsis from an emotionally rough story that makes you really reflect on your own actions and how those actions impact others. I do. So, yeah. It could be…
Comment by traysie — March 25, 2008 @ 5:45 pm
Wow. Traysie is really nice. Also, the director is the sexiest dang director ever to grace the board at ye ole warehouse theatre…give up for savas!
Comment by Brock — March 26, 2008 @ 10:26 am
Also…wtf? There were pork chops in the show?
Comment by Brock — March 26, 2008 @ 10:26 am
wow, Brock, you must have been really focused to miss the pork chops! that was undoubtable the highlight of the show. no, really, what more can i say that traysie didn’t already say? i was riveted. i couldn’t believe it when it was over. it seemed like we had just sat down!
Comment by michele — March 26, 2008 @ 12:52 pm