←Recommendations of river phoenix fugue

  • Shaun Leisher: river phoenix fugue by Sarah Jae Leiber
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    Love how unique and experimental this play gets. The lack of stage directions is a brilliant choice. It lets us focus on the poetic dialogue and leaves the possibilities endless for directorial choices.

    Love how unique and experimental this play gets. The lack of stage directions is a brilliant choice. It lets us focus on the poetic dialogue and leaves the possibilities endless for directorial choices.

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  • Christiane Swenson: river phoenix fugue by Sarah Jae Leiber
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    Sarah's plays all take place in a reality that is a lot like ours, but slightly more demented and infinitely more tender. A play that also functions as a piece of film crit about idol worship, the transference that happens when we watch movies, and the female gaze (or at least Jake Gyllenhaal's mom's gaze.)

    Sarah's plays all take place in a reality that is a lot like ours, but slightly more demented and infinitely more tender. A play that also functions as a piece of film crit about idol worship, the transference that happens when we watch movies, and the female gaze (or at least Jake Gyllenhaal's mom's gaze.)

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  • Joshua Brown: river phoenix fugue by Sarah Jae Leiber
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    River Phoenix Fugue represents the best kind of meta-theatre, the kind which truly adds to the mythos, conversation, and intrigue of its source material. Leiber's characters are mirrors, each reflecting their favorite movie's events—beat-for-beat—back at the audience in a flurry of description and reaction that keeps the mind's eye chugging along. With this play, Leiber cements herself as a writer not only interested in pop culture and its stars, but deeply, encyclopedically reverential of it.

    River Phoenix Fugue represents the best kind of meta-theatre, the kind which truly adds to the mythos, conversation, and intrigue of its source material. Leiber's characters are mirrors, each reflecting their favorite movie's events—beat-for-beat—back at the audience in a flurry of description and reaction that keeps the mind's eye chugging along. With this play, Leiber cements herself as a writer not only interested in pop culture and its stars, but deeply, encyclopedically reverential of it.

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  • Sam Heyman: river phoenix fugue by Sarah Jae Leiber
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    Sarah Jae Leiber is a playwright whose plays remind you that plays are also poetry, and poetry has the power to wrest long suppressed emotion from the depths of one’s heart. With “river phoenix fugue”, she assembles a chorus of witnesses to the late actor’s most idiosyncratic cinematic outing, and makes us all witnesses to the ‘emotionally complicated’ boy who wanted so much to be good, and only had a relative few precious years to be so. Prepare to cry. Revel in being mystified. Read this play.

    Sarah Jae Leiber is a playwright whose plays remind you that plays are also poetry, and poetry has the power to wrest long suppressed emotion from the depths of one’s heart. With “river phoenix fugue”, she assembles a chorus of witnesses to the late actor’s most idiosyncratic cinematic outing, and makes us all witnesses to the ‘emotionally complicated’ boy who wanted so much to be good, and only had a relative few precious years to be so. Prepare to cry. Revel in being mystified. Read this play.

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  • Samuel Langellier: river phoenix fugue by Sarah Jae Leiber
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    Yes the River is Running, and it's only on Empty that the Phoenix truly burns.
    Playwright Sarah Jae Leiber's layered Fugue is vivid to the point where I feel as if I'm remembering something I've forgotten.
    The impact of Phoenix's fugitive foray and the figure he cut into this little bit of the universe is sketched between the voices fleshing out an assigned trinity of performance aspects.
    Wonderfully inventive, wonderfully experimental, and bound to stir thought on structure and interactivity.

    Yes the River is Running, and it's only on Empty that the Phoenix truly burns.
    Playwright Sarah Jae Leiber's layered Fugue is vivid to the point where I feel as if I'm remembering something I've forgotten.
    The impact of Phoenix's fugitive foray and the figure he cut into this little bit of the universe is sketched between the voices fleshing out an assigned trinity of performance aspects.
    Wonderfully inventive, wonderfully experimental, and bound to stir thought on structure and interactivity.

    ”