Aurélia's Oratorio
For 70 minutes, the elastic, irrepressible Aurelia Thierrée un-jibes time and space: effects (like a kite flying its handler, or an alarm clock putting her to sleep) cause their causes; inanimate objects assault people (beware of sport coats bearing gifts); and fictions, like a toothy cartoon monster, can have a devastating chomp. Thierrée becomes an Alice in a dualistic Wonderland, like a photograph and its negative, and her stage, like space itself, is warped. Objects move backwards or upside down. At one point, Jaime Martinez, a lithe dancer and Thierree's co-contortionist, walks up a curtain. The evening has several lulls, in part because while some effects are magical, others don't translate (prompting thought - what did that last one mean? - rather than wonder). Nonetheless, when Thierrée's dangling by her ankles from a red sash, or rain on a dotted lace scrim pelts her, she not only makes the stage a Wonderland, she owns it.
Worth a try.
When
Ongoing until Sunday, February 28, 2010
Hours
| Sundays, 2pm |
| Tuesdays, 7:30pm |
| Wednesdays, 7:30pm |
| Thursdays, 8pm |
| Fridays, 8pm |
| Saturdays, 2pm & 8pm |