All this month, BroadwayHour.com is reviewing various shows in the Solo Performance Festival lineup. Both veteran BroadwayHour-ers and guests will be popping in to see shows and posting their thoughts. Want to be involved in reviewing? Now's your chance! Email broadwayhour AT sbcglobal.net and let us know what shows you're itching to review.
For now, take a look at the first couple reviews up on the blog:
Pipa & Frontier: Valley of the Shadows
One of the best parts of Seattle's Solo Performance Festival is the sheer amount of variety in the acts brought to the stage. Curator Keira McDonald pairs performers that otherwise might never share the stage, and that pairing brings out nuances in each act. Such was the case with Friday night's show, which paired Tamera Ober's Pipa and Ki Gottberg's Frontier: Valley of the Shadows.
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Ober's movements are beautifully controlled, whether she is carefully measuring herself out on the floor, or catapulting around the stage.... Her quirky and charming choreography takes us through her house and on a journey to the supermarket that quickly turns fantastical.
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Gottberg is a master storyteller, able to change her voice and body at a moment's notice to imitate her father's gruff German accent, or her mother's wispy Indian voice..... Though the story has a happy ending, Gottberg does not shy away from baring her grief to the audience, and bringing us close to her.
The Dwellers & Samson
Von Spreecken as Yerda is a very engaging performer. Every expression and action is very specific, including a catalogue of repeated hand gestures that provide some of the funniest bits of the evening. You feel a part of this world before the show even begins, and long after it ends, just what a successful solo performance hopes to achieve.
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This piece, a re-telling of the story of Samson and Delilah, is her [Wildrick's] first foray into a new world and it is an excellent start. When the piece hits its mark, and her beautiful voice intertwines with Josh Carter’s haunting music, it soars.
Solo Performance continues all this month!
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