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69 Moments of Life
Actor, You're Killing Me
Air Tight Security
Almost True Adventures ...
Amazing Improvised Musical
Animal Farm
Ballerina on a Horse
Beautiful Man
Berserker
Caffe di Amore or ...
Check the Box
Clearing Hedges
Corned Beef
Countless
Crime & Variations
Death Blow II: ...
Demon Pope
Diagnosis: Jew Pain ...
Disco Prophecies
Ethan's Gift
Far From Springer
Fixed Boundry
Forty Love
Got Water
I Can't Believe They're Not Oriental!
Idiot Machine: ...
In Cahoots
John Muir: Watch, Pray, Fight
Late Night Talk Show
Ludlow and Canal
Magic at the Fringe
Man 1, Bank 0
Marx in Soho
Mixed Signal
Mother: A Modern Buddhist ...
Naked Inqisition
nEO - surrealists present: ...
Neon's Crazy Blue
Nharcolepsy
Original Action Pack
Park - N - Ride
Passages
Sandwich
Scabaret!
Searching for God in Kerala
Seventh Game of the World Series
Shadow Kissers
Strobe Vision
This World is Not My Home
Total Improvisation - ...
Train Stories
Tripping on the Equator ...
Twinspeak
Play: passages
Reviewer: henk smits
Reviewer Email: henk@garlic.com
Rating: None
Rebecca of course is idealistic (like her grandmother)but it doesn't work
that your flyers are super, but the performance is
boring, not directed and far too long.
The RED THREAD is so obvious that we fell in sleep!
Play: passages
Reviewer: leah
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Rating: 5 Stars
rebecca shultz does a wonderful job of weaving together the stories of three
generations of women in her family in her one-woman play, "passages".
while being a very personal and revealing play, rebecca keeps it from getting
overly sentimental with good doses of dry and witty humor sprinkled throughout
the play. one of my favorite aspects of the play is the multimedia elements
- audio recordings of interviews with the two elder women, perfectly period-appropriate
costume changes, slides of family photos, and the ever-evolving stage picture
that connects the stories with the evocative symbol of the red string...
passages can't justly be described - just go see it for yourself!
Play: Passages
Reviewer: Sage
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Rating: 1 Star
I found Passages very tedious. Yet another autobiographical solo piece about
a fairly common life. Except for the red string in the belly bit, the red
string/clothesline props didn't add much. The staging felt overly slow and
stiff. The whole thing felt self-indulgent -- why are you telling your story?
What I did find fascinating was her grandmother. I wanted to hear more about
her, about her writing, about her peers. I could have listened to her intriguing
voice all hour ...
Play: Passages
Reviewer: Deborah
Reviewer Email: chilved@att.com
Rating: 5 Stars
I was completely charmed and taken in by Rebecca's performance. She has
an authentic rapport with the audience as she shares her talents in writing,
acting, singing and dancing with us as if we are a part of her circle. Go
see it!
Play: Passages
Reviewer: nash
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Rating: None
Thought provoking. I left this show examining again the influences that
my family has had on my self image and choices I have made in my life.
Play: Passages
Reviewer: Alex
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Rating: 3 Stars
An autobiographical solo piece with elements of performance art. The show
is generally cute. The actress weaves in audio from her mother and grandmother
while she dresses/undresses and winds red thread across the stage. Some
of the audio is spoken too fast to understand easily. The show has a lot
of strengths - despite its slow pace, it is quite engaging. But I came out
feeling that it could have been so much more - she is really only touching
the surface of what she could do with red thread, for instance. In addition,
her story - of living in different cities because she can't feel at home
anywhere; and of growing up in a divorced family - is not unique. It is
a story personally familiar to most of us. As a
result, it could come across as unoriginal. But she manages to keep it interesting
for us.
Play: Passages
Reviewer: Inna
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Rating: 5 Stars
This solo piece is intelligently written and brilliantly acted. I was completely
captivated by the audio tape recordings of the performer's mother and grandmother
which are peppered at what seems like all the right times throughout the
piece. They serve to give the audience a deeper insight into the performer's
experience of what it means to be a woman trying to make her way in the
world and the parallels all women face in the choices they must make as
they enter adulthood. The props were well chosen and the movement on stage
is coordinated to perfection. Anyone who has a family will relate to this
performance and will come away with much to think about.
Play: Passages
Reviewer: Kate
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Rating: 5 Stars
The recorded voices of the mother and grandmother add a ghostly depth to
the piece. They also reveal the genetic pool from which Rebecca presumably
draws her strength as a writer. Passages is intimate and real, while still
incorporating strong elements of visual poetry. The pacing of the piece
is slow enough to allow the audience to absorb the many layers of performance
taking place, but not so slow as to drag.
Definitely worth the one hour and eight bucks.
Play: Passages
Reviewer: Rachelle Axel
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Rating: 5 Stars
Passages unfolds, or rather, fills up, like a container. It develops, layer
by layer and accumulates to become an insightful, moving, nakedly honest
account of matriarchal life paths and the pleasures, pride and doubts that
line the road. Rebecca Schultz's work is less theater and more performance
art. She and her few props and costumes inhabit the stage and even the most
iconoclastic items (the house coat, the clothes line) take on new meaning
(the choice of motherhood, life's journey, children). The stage becomes
a forum for visual cues as much as the spoken word and audio. Schultz has
a unique rhythm of performance and it's not until halfway through her piece
do you realize just how much has subtly washed over you.
Play: Passages
Reviewer: Jay Martin
Reviewer Email: scenography@hotmail.com
Rating: 3 Stars
This autobiographical solo also includes tape recordings of the performer's
mother and grandmother. All three women are insightful writers, so the show
becomes more than a family history. It becomes 60 years of women's history
in glimpses.
Her physical work on stage is well planned. When a tape is playing, she accompanies it with a silent symbolic action, often by unwinding a long red thread. A "thread" is a cliche, as a word. As a physical reality, her yarn is vibrant and playful. And sad.
This show presents fewer conclusions than other autobiographies. By admitting her confusions, and by including more stories than just her own, she tell us something more like only friends tell friends.