Author: Jennifer Cayer
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Slavic Soul Remix: Bring a Weasel and a Pint of your Own Blood Festival at JACK
The annual dare: Mac Wellman challenges three of his Brooklyn College playwrights to write short pieces based on the same source material, this year Maxim Gorky’s remembrances of Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Andreev. The set, a palimpsest of JACK’s signature tinfoil, typed pages and reverent portraits reminded me of that chunk in Anna Karenina I’ve been…
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Return of the Repressed: Clare Barron’s I’LL NEVER LOVE AGAIN at The Bushwick Starr
I’ll Never Love Again transcends one woman’s story to become a kind of inter-generational love letter to the fleeting intensity of adolescence and the lives we led before our skins solidified into patterns made by love, loss, and time.
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Everymen: Actors Theatre of Louisville’s The Glory of the World
What I remember about Everyman, the 15th (I think?) century morality play taught in many theater history surveys: next to nothing. It’s allegorical, performers act in the role of virtues, there’s a journey, maybe a choice? God weighs in? So, what does that have to do with Charles Mee & Les Water’s circus-like symposium on…
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Minor Threats: Chris Thorpe & Rachel Chavkin’s Confirmation at The Invisible Dog, COIL Festival 2016
I haven’t thrown a dildo in the mailbox for Oregon, but I’ve belatedly followed the white militia’s armed occupation of a wildlife refuge and the ensuing conversations around who is labeled a terrorist, and how race and gender – in both sly and slap-you-in-the-face ways – shapes the narrative and physical treatment of these men.…
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Forgetting, Remembering, Forgetting Again – a dialogue on watching via ‘tiger tiger’
Dan O’Neil and Jennifer Cayer attended ‘tiger tiger (on the nature of violence)’ at Dixon Place on separate nights. Then they wrote this.
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Let The Machine Get It
A response to Rude Mechs and Deborah Hay’s MATCH-PLAY at New York Live Arts