Lantern Theater presented Travesties, a play worth returning to in time for the meaning of the play with difficulty relating to the structure of the narrative.
“Love only in fairy tales.”
– Tom Stoppard
THE REAL THING
My Mamma and The Full-Scale Invasion
War in the Modern World, dramatically recalls the absolute comedé of a Nuclear Fallout, poetically situated within the duration of a phone call. The humor and seriousness of knowing this takes place during the Russian-Ukranian war, while the domestic life during war reveals unusual behavior.
“ I have rarely seen a play that so effectively describes the way external forces- in this case immigration policies in the United States- distort the inner lives of actual humans.”
L’Alliance New York Annual Festival, a multifaceted artist showcase of performances centered on the influence of globalization, diaspora and French speakers in general.
Les Historiennes by Jeanne Balibar, 2018
Fouad Boussouf: Näss(people,) The Joyce Theatre, 2022.
AHaiku Review: Wavering t-shirts hot Mediterranean the people prevail
Ismaël Mouaraki, Destins Croisés- La Sacre de Lila, 2024.
*Presented as part of FIAFNY’s “Crossing The Line Festival” at New York Live Arts
In a cycle of festivals, and programming which brings a global village to the stages across many different cultures beginning to form multicultural communication deepening our understanding of spirituality. Multiculturalism in the ceremonial arts takes the mode of theater to more practical lenses. Probes into the land, the people, and culture of place over time in a kind of anthropologist. Le Sacre de la Lila Ismaël Mouaraki takes in the sound familiar to him, through Moroccan Gnawa traditional rhythm and drumming. Where the origin of a sacred festival of light for Islamic prayers call to a sensual being in knowing their surroundings and spirituality.
The Half-God of Rainfall(2023), by Inua Ellams, was an episode of transcultural myth for a wide audience that internal personal trauma appears ancestral. Thematically the play used many subtextual references to discuss the Yoruban Gods and Goddess as popular culture and the Other. The poem directed our attention to such themes as sports, mythology, the African diaspora, religion, and gender in Ellams’s epic poem produced by the New York Theater Workshop.
A Personal Essay into multiple themes and layers of experimental theater in the form of an epic poem. The Half-God of RainFall introduced mythology informed by philosophy, art, and religion with Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art & Thought,a book by Henry Drewal, John Pemberton, and Rowland Abiodun.
Koresh Dance Company
The Masquerade performed at the Mummers Museum, 2025.
2025 Koresh Connects Performancetoa community event at the Mummers Museum, South Philadelphia.
Hollow Apple, Koresh Dance 2024
There is a nuance happening in watching Koresh Dance that dreams up the details of being in reality, or not (Hollow Apple), the choreography by Roni Koresh in 2024. Contemporaneous for our time connecting social worm holes to more virtual worlds.
KYL/D Final Chapter 2026
Echo & Flame: Kun-Yang Lin and Dancers, 2026
Home (2021) solo by Weiwei Ma
KYL/D, Fall Fest 2023 at the Kimmel Center for the Performing arts, Perelman Theater.
KYL/D, Fall Fest 2024 at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Perelman Theater.
An immersive art installation at the Ice Box Project Space in 2023. Pulling from a deeply personal historyenriched by the physicality of the movement artist, Annie Wilson. A saga of borrowing themes from a genre of modern dance and performance art. The phenomena, best explained by a transcendence and transformation of the body. Always the Hour, deals with the past death of her sister, and communicating with the after life.
Theatre InterAct : The Last The Last Yiddish Speaker
NOTES: After reading Graham Greene’s THE POWER AND THE GLORY. This ncidental poverty stricken novel, and the incrimination of spiritual beliefs in Mexico in 1930’s connect. In a similar vein, the delayed capture of a wandering priest, and the structured social construction toward the law and rogue priest to draw them closer together in the end the outlaw request for a priest to hear his last confession, and the Mexican army stood by as the priest rose into capture, and his way infront of a firing squad.
Two episodes into the jarring realist theater, The Last Parade,February 2023 by playwright Stephanie Satie, and The Last Yiddish Speaker by Deborah Zoe Laufer in2024 . Jewish heritage, anti-semitism, and political instability of bipartisan nationalism set these playsup to actively ask, ‘What if? ‘ The Jewish pograms from Bolshevik- Soviets and Communist oppositions led invasions that desecrated Jewish communities in order to win over the masses. And the American political crisis of 2024, following the Jan. 6th Insurrection on The Capital is an unspeakable coupe attempt led to Stephanie Satie’s hypothetical reality designed to show the results of Jan. 6th, If they had succeeded. Zoe Laufer gives us on the other hand, a scape goat that labels a group of people as the resistance or opposition to a ruling right-wing party.
Dan Hodge stars in this realist depiction of a father and daughter. State & religion after the January 6th insurrection on the U.S. Capital. Grows vile and fear for the remaining victims.
