Comments on: Thrush, a play with songs. http://www.salvagevanguard.org/blog/2006/10/13/thrush-a-play-with-songs/ prepare for impact Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:21:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Amparo Garcia-Crow http://www.salvagevanguard.org/blog/2006/10/13/thrush-a-play-with-songs/#comment-886 Amparo Garcia-Crow Sat, 04 Nov 2006 05:16:24 +0000 http://www.salvagevanguard.org/blog/2006/10/14/thrush-a-play-with-songs/#comment-886 What an extraordinary experience I had viewing THRUSH last night. Beginning with Caridad's layers and layers of intricate, heartbreaking and hysterical (at times) language/song---then Jenny's masterful placement of it, and most importantly, each of performers, like arrows hitting the bull eye's of our hearts and imagination! I was mezmerized! If only theatre could be this relevant, this beautiful and full of truthful tragedy, I'd camp out there! (Start a family, give blood and sing in the choir---of its laurels!) Thank you all for fully supporting Caridad's vision, every one of you shining through with your presence and dedication to every cell and pulse of this work. And Dan---Dr. Dan Dietz, dramaturg extra-ordinare, a maestro himself who equally takes me to such depths when he too pens from this particular well! Congratulations! And everybody else, as in audience, witness and friends: place yourselves in the latitude and "long" ti-tude of this show! Its one of my all time favorite theatrical experiences! Bravo! Amparo Garcia-Crow What an extraordinary experience I had viewing THRUSH last night. Beginning with Caridad’s layers and layers of intricate, heartbreaking and hysterical (at times) language/song—then Jenny’s masterful placement of it, and most importantly, each of performers, like arrows hitting the bull eye’s of our hearts and imagination! I was mezmerized! If only theatre could be this relevant, this beautiful and full of truthful tragedy,
I’d camp out there! (Start a family, give blood and sing in the choir—of its laurels!) Thank you all for fully supporting Caridad’s vision, every one of you shining through with your presence and dedication to every cell and pulse of this work. And Dan—Dr. Dan Dietz, dramaturg extra-ordinare, a maestro himself who equally takes me to such depths when he too pens from this particular well! Congratulations! And everybody else, as in audience, witness and friends: place yourselves in the latitude and “long” ti-tude of this show! Its one of my all time favorite theatrical experiences!
Bravo!
Amparo Garcia-Crow

]]> By: patti hadad http://www.salvagevanguard.org/blog/2006/10/13/thrush-a-play-with-songs/#comment-872 patti hadad Fri, 03 Nov 2006 16:26:26 +0000 http://www.salvagevanguard.org/blog/2006/10/14/thrush-a-play-with-songs/#comment-872 Just wanted to thank you for last night’s show. I really enjoyed it and it’s a shame there weren’t more people in the audience to witness it. At an objective standpoint, I still would have recommended this piece. I felt a hopelessness in song for characters who sought love just as much as survival. It reminded me of true times of dirty war (esp. los desaparecidos of Argentina, the mutillation and torture of women, the Spanish cider....), despair enlightened with poetry, melody, and comedy. I was riveted throughout the whole thing. That's all I wanted to say. Just wanted to thank you for last night’s show. I really enjoyed it and it’s a shame there weren’t more people in the audience to witness it. At an objective standpoint, I still would have recommended this piece. I felt a hopelessness in song for characters who sought love just as much as survival. It reminded me of true times of dirty war (esp. los desaparecidos of Argentina, the mutillation and torture of women, the Spanish cider….), despair enlightened with poetry, melody, and comedy. I was riveted throughout the whole thing.
That’s all I wanted to say.

]]> By: Luke http://www.salvagevanguard.org/blog/2006/10/13/thrush-a-play-with-songs/#comment-755 Luke Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:30:51 +0000 http://www.salvagevanguard.org/blog/2006/10/14/thrush-a-play-with-songs/#comment-755 This play gets into your face and still hooks your sympathy for the characters. Elizabeth as Minerva made me so uncomfortable with her anguish that I squirmed a hole into my seat (sorry, Etta), and Jude (Keck) will get you in the end, too. The set is an eerie version of the world gone wrong, not in some "other" place, but right here in your own comfy country, and the music weaves in and out of the harsh emotions, the tension and release of the strummed chords never quite letting you decide between hope or despair. This play gets into your face and still hooks your sympathy for the characters. Elizabeth as Minerva made me so uncomfortable with her anguish that I squirmed a hole into my seat (sorry, Etta), and Jude (Keck) will get you in the end, too.

The set is an eerie version of the world gone wrong, not in some “other” place, but right here in your own comfy country, and the music weaves in and out of the harsh emotions, the tension and release of the strummed chords never quite letting you decide between hope or despair.

]]> By: Reza http://www.salvagevanguard.org/blog/2006/10/13/thrush-a-play-with-songs/#comment-742 Reza Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:54:22 +0000 http://www.salvagevanguard.org/blog/2006/10/14/thrush-a-play-with-songs/#comment-742 The set design is awesome. The lights are awesome. The costumes are awesome. Man - the whole darn play is awesome. The set design is awesome. The lights are awesome. The costumes are awesome. Man - the whole darn play is awesome.

]]> By: Casey Kleam http://www.salvagevanguard.org/blog/2006/10/13/thrush-a-play-with-songs/#comment-678 Casey Kleam Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:58:55 +0000 http://www.salvagevanguard.org/blog/2006/10/14/thrush-a-play-with-songs/#comment-678 Fantastic. Jude and Katherine are some of my favorite Austin actor types, so that was a pleasure. Razor Kiss is stuck with me, that moment, over and over. Subversive entertainment you should see. Fantastic. Jude and Katherine are some of my favorite Austin actor types, so that was a pleasure.

Razor Kiss is stuck with me, that moment, over and over.

Subversive entertainment you should see.

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