←Recommendations of Silueta by Diana Burbano, Tom Shelton and Chris Shelton

  • Elana Gartner: Silueta by Diana Burbano, Tom Shelton and Chris Shelton by Diana Burbano
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    What begins as a nighttime stalking by a former lover's ghost gains momentum and intensity, taking the clearly drawn characters through heartbreaking journeys and choices between each other and their art, until finally they reach the crux of why the ghost has appeared. So much wonderful symbolism and high emotions! A director could go wild with this script!

    What begins as a nighttime stalking by a former lover's ghost gains momentum and intensity, taking the clearly drawn characters through heartbreaking journeys and choices between each other and their art, until finally they reach the crux of why the ghost has appeared. So much wonderful symbolism and high emotions! A director could go wild with this script!

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  • Asher Wyndham: Silueta by Diana Burbano, Tom Shelton and Chris Shelton by Diana Burbano
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    SILUETA captures the glory, excitement, suffering (true, imagined, exaggerated), and (shouldn't we admit?) selfishness of being an artist. All that is captured wonderfully by the relationship between a "Primitive" artist and a "Minimalist" artist. Their relationship is intense, sexy, raw, cruel, and (surprisingly) hilarious. They tear each other to pieces, attack each other's artistic visions and ideas like weapons used to vandalize art. By presenting this couple the playwrights make us, the audience, wonder - What does it take to collaborate in a meaningful relationship? Can we admit our...

    SILUETA captures the glory, excitement, suffering (true, imagined, exaggerated), and (shouldn't we admit?) selfishness of being an artist. All that is captured wonderfully by the relationship between a "Primitive" artist and a "Minimalist" artist. Their relationship is intense, sexy, raw, cruel, and (surprisingly) hilarious. They tear each other to pieces, attack each other's artistic visions and ideas like weapons used to vandalize art. By presenting this couple the playwrights make us, the audience, wonder - What does it take to collaborate in a meaningful relationship? Can we admit our selfishness and failures so we can truly love another person?

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