![]() ![]() ![]() Some characters, like Aaron Mattocks’s excellent Death, are all trait and attitude, dry breathy voice and alluring catlike grace others, like Pete Simpson’s brawny Herakles, who enters pounding a drum set and speaks his opening lines lofting a cymbal as barbell, are mere cartoons. ![]() Hardly anyone acts here, and no one emotes. Naturalistic acting has been so last year lo these many years, but Supernatural Wife pounds in the coffin nails with special glee. What we learn about ourselves, and about what’s going on in performance, from Big Dance Theater‘s Supernatural Wife: But I think I can make something of it, nonetheless, and thus, The show’s well-crafted, fast-paced, hipper than we knew we could be and yet never difficult to follow - in short, so deafeningly contemporary it’s hard to see ’round it. IT’S TAKEN ME A LONG TIME TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO SAY about Big Dance Theater’s Supernatural Wife (based on Anne Carson‘s translation of Euripides’s Alkestis), a new commission recently on stage at the Walker. ![]()
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