|
It's quite uncommon for someone to say a Fringe show should be longer, but
we're going to suggest just that. It's not so much that we couldn't bear for
it to end-it just didn't have enough time to begin. Clocking in at 40
minutes, there's barely time to grasp the question Matthew Kinney and
Michelle Ries raise: Are dreams different from waking thought? To answer
this, Reis and Kinney take a journey through the unconscious with stories,
dance, and even a smidgen of audience participation. The highlight is when
Ries performs a simplified version of the electric slide to Pachelbel's
Canon in D as she explains how different Gone With the Wind would have been
if the South had won the war. When she asks why she has to dance, Kinney
answers truthfully: because it's illogical and weird, and it makes us laugh.
But while the actors and the absurdity of their performance do make us
laugh, they leave us more confused than anything else.
-- ELLEN CARPENTER
The Collection
Agency
Created by Matthew Kinney, Michelle Ries, and Travis Chamberlain;
directed by Travis Chamberlain.
Where:
P.S. 122 Downstairs, 150 First Avenue
When:
8/24
at 6.
|
