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Beautiful Man
Berserker
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Searching for God in Kerala
Seventh Game of the World Series
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Twinspeak
Play: Searching for God in Kerala
Reviewer: melissa
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Rating: 5 Stars
A wonderful, emotional play. Thought-provoking and engaging throughout.
A must see.
Play: Searching for God in Kerala
Reviewer: Dida
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Rating: 4 Stars
This play features a great story line re: one man's exploration and attempt
to climb to the pinnacle of Maslow's hierarchy of needs: the spiritual.
It is enhanced by beautiful acting and dancing by Deepa Govind, and very
effective video by new documentary filmmaker Laura Lukitsch. Her filming
and editing of the "theyyam" interacting with actor and writer
Jon Whittle is especially effective: humorous and intimate.
My one and only slight criticism of this moving, colorful play is Jon's sometimes self-conscious acting. Other than that, it is well worth seeing!
Play: Searching for God in Kerala
Reviewer: Andi Walker
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Rating: 5 Stars
Exactly what the Fringe should be. Original, creative, enlightening, and
well executed. Really interesting and enjoyable.
Play: searching for god in kerala
Reviewer: steven
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Rating: 3 Stars
An intriguing mish-mosh. 'Searching for God' was certainly one of the most
technically ambitious shows in the Fringe, but I ultimately felt its multi-media
approach (video, animation, classical dance, tragic love story...) left
it neither fish nor fowl. Too many different approaches which didn't really
mesh & which, I'm afraid, only wound up confusing the story the piece
seemed to want to tell. I also had some difficulty figuring out exactly
what story it was Mr. Whittle DID want to tell. While all the separate elements
were well done (in particular Ms. Govind's dance sequences), they never
seemed to coalesce (very like 'Berserker', which I'd seen earlier in the
evening). Perhaps a longer format would help, in which all those elements
could be explored more fully. In this short format, it felt like simpler
would have been better -- that only one or perhaps two of the directions
taken should have been focussed on and explored in more depth. Too much
was attempted and, consequen!
tly, I felt that all the individual elements received short shrift. Still,
far better too MUCH ambition than the alternative. It's a potentially fascinating
piece if Mr. Whittle can figure out exactly what he wants to communicate
with it & streamlines it to that effect.
Play: Searching for God in Kerala
Reviewer: Vince Vitale
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Rating: 5 Stars
Jon Whittle’s play introduces us to the “theyyam,” a human
“god” from the culture of the southwestern shore of India, who
travels about living for short periods of time with well-to-do families.
Our protagonist goes to India and meets a woman who teaches him to dance
like a theyyam. Our western man claims he had a moment as a god. Or was
he just infatuated with the notion of becoming a sort of “Rent-a-God”?
Either way, “Searching” gives us a cultural glimpse through some
exquisitely sensual dancing by Deepa Govind, as well as Whittle himself
in the garb of a theyyam, and a fascinating investigation of a lesser-known
god concept.
Play: Searching for God in Kerala
Reviewer: Fred
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Did I come away knowing "what it feels like to be God"? That answer
is no. But I did come away with a solid, engaging story filled with interesting
questions. It was presented in layered fashioned that included theatre,
dance and film. It was one of those wonderful experiences that has me thinking
about it days later.