←Recommendations of MINOTAUR

Think Aeschylus, Blake, Eliot, Lorca, Shakespeare - MINOTAUR is an epic spectacle, the ghost story of humankind, echoes of civilization only a blip in earth’s history. Big picture drawn from the mouth of Minotaur ("the lone beast upon the shadow throne") who expounds with Ari (Ariadne?), and Pen in their wasteland triangle of loss. Caridad Svich pushes stage limits for our vanquished horror show. Crazy-good insights, astonishing poetry ancient and modern. I love Pen's parade-of-animals toast!

This play is a feast for actors, directors and designers. Caridad Svich is the closest thing our generation has to Shakespear. I loved how poetic the dialogue that fills this play is. I loved the lack of stage directions and how it gives permission for endless ways to interpret the script. The Minotaur was an enigma that I thoroughly enjoyed trying to solve. This piece also has some pretty insightful things to say about capitalism and empire that I will keep thinking about. Someone produce this play.

Axe to grind and strings to play, MINOTAUR is an epic staging of the Late Stage we find ourselves in with Capital and all it's isms in full effect.
Caridad Svich and her magnetic language illuminate how even outside the labyrinth the Minotaur remains the center. Those that are subject of song and sacrifice are due for cannibalism and rebirth in each new refrain.
The celerity of celebrity on full display, when the last star burns out the universe is just beginning again.

I love the lusciously languid, painfully prescient, decadently language-rich world of this play. I find myself fascinated and inspired by the simple theatricality of the amplification and the ways creatives could use it as a basis for staging this fever dream — live sampling, perhaps? I was fully engaged in the act of seeking out the intersection between the foreign and the familiar and placing myself and my loved ones in the labyrinth. The words do so much work so effortlessly. Gorgeous.

With MINOTAUR Caridad Svich reminds me of her status as the great poet-playwright of our time. Full of wry humor (a fever dream as described) and emotionally packed, this play has me reflecting on the space I occupy and the others who this space with me both seen and unseen, recognized and unrecognized. I'm minotaur, you're minotaur, and we're all at the center of a labyrinth. Caridad continues to reveal an uncanny ability to craft narrative that washes over me, leaving me haunted and inspired.