Brilliant Traces
by Cindy Lou Johnson
“pitch-perfect”
Jeffrey Bruner,
Des Moines Register
(full review - adobe pdf)“simply brilliant”
John Busbee, ArtScene Magazine
(full review - adobe pdf)
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ORIGINAL RUN
April 14-24, 2005
The cast and crew
| Henry Harry | Richie Gibbs |
| Rosannah DeLuce | Shoshana Salowitz |
| Director | Désirée Dixon |
| Stage Manager | Matt Willoughby |
About the show
Henry Harry is awakened by the insistent knocking of an unexpected visitor — who turns out to be Rosannah DeLuce, a distraught young woman who has fled all the way from Arizona to escape her impending marriage, dressed in full bridal regalia. Exhausted, she throws herself on Henry’s mercy, but after sleeping for two days straight her vigor — and combativeness — return. Both characters, it develops, have been wounded and embittered by life, and both are refugees from so-called civilization. They explore the pain of the past and, in time, consider the possibilities of the present. In the end their very isolation proves to be the catalyst that allows them to break through the web of old griefs and bitter feelings that beset them both and to reach out for the solace and sanctuary which only hard-won understanding, self-awareness and compassion for the plight of others can bestow.
