10/03/23: Bloodshot
What: She NYC Arts presents a new play by Elinor T. Vanderburg, imaging a city where an epidemic has eradicated sleep. As citizens cope with unending days and nights, a new alarming pattern emerges when people begin to spontaneously combust.
And? This was truly special. A noir story, with a jazz quartet providing shrieking underscore throughout. The combination of Vanderburg's poetic yet understated script and and director Nigel Semaj's athletic and dramatic staging provides a truly memorable and haunting show, an exploration of the idea that the only rational response to the increasingly irrational world is self-implosion. The cast isn't always up to the level of Vanderburg's dialogue (excepting Ben Holbrook, the sonorous narrator, whose delivery is as poetic as the world of the play), but they all move exceptionally well, creating vivid stage pictures against Nor Marlow Smith's simple but versatile scenic design. The sound design currently needs a slightly better sound balance of body mics to the band (and accounting for when actors are yelling), but otherwise an exceptional piece of theater and commentary.
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