

But then, there’s that level of crafting, the things that I’m interested in, that mix between rawness and vulnerability and aggression, and where all those things meet and the intimacy you get from that. “It’s an interesting mix of devising and offering impulse to people," she said. "For me, I like to work with the people I like to work with because they bring what they bring.
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MOVIE REVIEW: James Gunn digs deep for "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. And while fans of her fiercely bewitching performance in "Sleep No More" may recognize some traces of Bartnik's presence and style in her cast, she also clearly gives the players room to make these roles their own. With "Here," Bartnik utilizes a cast of four, top-shelf performers - Donna Costello, Zach Martens, Jeff Lyon and Tori Sparks. The performance this month, a revised and expanded presentation of what was seen in the February previews, is the first episode in a planned serialized storyline. The whole experience runs approximately 75 minutes, with only five audience members admitted to each performance and no two visits alike. Guests to "Here" first convene at a downtown Manhattan bar, then walk to a secret performance space in the neighborhood. "That’s how memory works, which is one of the huge things that I’m trying to play with, the things that get foggy and the weird snippets that we latch on to or the things that shape-shift over time," she said. "Like, linear is not how we exist anyway, so how do you make a show that embodies that level of ‘A little of this, a little of that, I remember this, you recall that’? What does that even mean?”ĭIVE IN: Mark Gagliardi brings the "Black Lagoon" to Brooklyn When it comes to heightened emotions and the malleable nature of time, the storytelling possibilities are endless, according to Bartnik. As I wrote in a review of those preview performances earlier this year, "the show traffics in intimate, small-scale human emotional devastation as time folds in on itself to create a memory play composed of guilt, loss, confusion and mystery." "Here" centers on two pairs of adult siblings, reuniting to mourn the death of a family patriarch.
