I was hooked by this briskly-paced piece from the start! Dzida has created a bold theatrical world that pieces together tense and heightened naturalism, movement/dance, meta-theatricality, and brilliantly executed adaptation. She subverts and explodes the canon in unexpected and satisfying ways. The dynamic she sets up between the five central women in the piece in part 1 is a potent microcosm of how women are pitted against one another, and her refracting of Abigail Williams' narrative through several different iterations wrenchingly illustrates the entrenched misogyny, violence, and...
I was hooked by this briskly-paced piece from the start! Dzida has created a bold theatrical world that pieces together tense and heightened naturalism, movement/dance, meta-theatricality, and brilliantly executed adaptation. She subverts and explodes the canon in unexpected and satisfying ways. The dynamic she sets up between the five central women in the piece in part 1 is a potent microcosm of how women are pitted against one another, and her refracting of Abigail Williams' narrative through several different iterations wrenchingly illustrates the entrenched misogyny, violence, and oppression that undergirds "the canon." The end is satisfying--things need exploding!