As artistic director Keith Garsson’s Primal Forces stage company returns to Boca Raton this season, he is up to his usual opaque theater tricks with the area premiere of Jennifer Haley’s two-character play, Breadcrumbs. The audience is disoriented from the start as we meet Alida (Angie Radosh), a writer struggling with her thoughts, grasping to find the words she wants … [Read more...]
Fine performances lift new ‘Accident’ at Primal Forces
“Write what you know,” goes the old adage to playwrights, so Lydia Stryk wrote a play about the aftermath of a debilitating car accident. Like her fictional character Libby, Stryk was the victim of a collision between herself and an automobile driver. Or as Libby puts it with her dark, bitter humor, she met Anton by accident. In An Accident, the latest area … [Read more...]
‘Communion,’ at Primal Forces, deftly explores issues of character
Although the word "communion" brings to mind the Catholic ritual of accepting the body and blood of Christ, Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor seems more interested in its alternate definition, “the sharing or exchanging of mental or spiritual thoughts or feelings.” For there is plenty of such sharing – as well as withholding – in MacIvor’s Communion, receiving its regional … [Read more...]
Three strong women aim for ‘Communion’ at Primal Forces
Keith Garsson and his Primal Forces theater company are on the move again. After a season and a half at Delray Beach’s Arts Garage, which then dropped its theater program, he returned to Andrews Living Arts in downtown Fort Lauderdale. But after one show there, it too suspended production. So Garsson packed up again and moved across town to Empire Stage, where he opens the … [Read more...]
‘Good Girl’ gives intriguing look at intersection of sex and technology
Why are futuristic robots usually depicted as doing domestic chores like vacuuming carpets, when what we really want them for is readily available sex? If that conundrum strikes a chord with you, you may want to check out the lean and steamy playlet, The Good Girl, by Australia’s Emilie Collyer, receiving its South Florida premiere through Oct. 29 from Fort Lauderdale’s … [Read more...]
Director Garsson revives Primal Forces company with full season
“If you miss (theater at) Arts Garage, we’re back! We’re back with a vengeance.” So says Keith Garsson, who directed the theater program at the Delray Beach storefront performance complex for a season and a half, until the drama component was abruptly curtailed in December because of huge financial losses. And with the end of his quirky, sexy productions there, Garsson’s … [Read more...]