babybeezer

Excellent work! You can't maintain a character who is so radically different from yourself, through so long a performance, without really doing your homework. I totally believed Yasmin's desperation and indignance. Some nice nuances, too, like I noticed that her strongest connection was with the other Muslim character (Abdul, I think). Would you say that's accurate? If so, is it because of their shared language?

It's hard to stand out in such a big production with so many characters in it and you did that, too -- commanded the space (a big one) without resorting to gross indicating while several other performers did fall into that trap. While you were lucky to get to play a part like that in such a well-mounted production of this great piece, the production was even luckier to have you. For real.

I think my favorite part was around the "story telling" scene. The actors really stopped performing for the audience and started to be present on stage in spite of (because of?) the fact that their characters were performing for each other. Aside from a few nitpicky things about performances in general and choices in scene-change music, I was really impressed. Pentecost is a long story, but your group got it across without its ever getting dull. Set, costumes and lighting were awesome. I'm glad I made the drive up!

xo