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- 1play = Hanging on Your Every Word
2name = Jill Royce Loomis
3email = jrloomis@gte.net
4rating = 3 Stars
5review = Hats off to the whole company for shining light on a dark subject.
I'd like to see it again cut and polished with a smaller cast of experienced
actors. The song entitled "Your Drool..." was too graphic for
my taste, but it's not a pretty subject, is it?
- 1play = Hanging on your every word
2name = Anna
3email =
4rating = 5 Stars
5review = Sabrina rocks!!!
- 1play = Hanging on your every word
2name = Rena
3email = LaRena66@hotmail.com
4rating = 1 Star
5review = A very engaging, intense exploration of suicide - and what it
mens for the people left behind. The talented cast works together and individually
to portray different personal stories with great intensity, even singing
and dancing - and they pull it off! Surprisingly professional, great script,
this performance really stays with you, in a good way!
how get on with life
1play = Hanging On Your Every Word
2name = Mandy Warren
3email = penultimate65@hotmail.com
4rating = 5 Stars
5review = Wow, this show really rocked me, and I could see the effect on
other people in the audience, too -- one lady behind me was crying through
about half of it.
- Serious stuff, with some wrenching stories about people with mental
problems. Definitely the best of the 3 Fringe shows I've seen so far.
- 1play = Hanging on your every word
2name = Willa Crowell
3email = willa@cgl.ucsf.edu
4rating = 4 Stars
5review = In the last few weeks I've been to two Word for Word shows, a
reading at the Eureka, and Rent. Two thoughts (that I didn't have about
the other shows) were: this is important, and are they going to take it
on the road. The monologues were excellent, the music striking, the performers
engaging. I'm tempted to go again. Shows are Wed at 10pm and Thurs at 7pm,
at Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (Sutter & Mason). Go.
- play = Hanging on Your Every Word
2name = Brigid Hogan
3email =
4rating = 4 Stars
5review = I was both impressed by the quality of the
acting and the piece itself. It was especially strong when the characters
were telling their stories.
- I originally decided to go because I know some one in the cast, but
my boyfriend came with me and enjoyed it as much as I did.
- An hour felt too short, although if I were making choices about how
to use the time, I might have lost the songs...
- 1play = Hanging On Your Every Word
2name = James Frey
3email = FreyJ@hotmail.com
4rating = 5 Stars
5review = This play is very haunting and powerful. The way the scenes bleed
into each other and
the mix of real and surreal elements reinforce its dreamlike quality.
Your attention is pulled from one thing to another then before you know
it, it's over and
you feel like you're waking up. Very cool.
- 1play = "Hanging On Your Every Word"
2name = Nancy Mutnick
3email = njmutnick@yahoo.com
4rating = 5 Stars
5review = As the fascades of ancient taboos are eroded by modern culture,
we begin to unravel the tangle of emotions hidden by centuries of silence
and the deeds believed so unfathomable as to deny their very existence.
The past 25 years has seen depression and suicide brought to national attention
not only by western medicine, psychiatry and celebrity, but by millions
of people who
every day grapple with clinical depression or the tragic results of suicide.
- Playwright, Suze Allen, interviewed dozens of people to create Hanging
On Your Every Word, one of the offerings of the SF Fringe Festival. An
irreverent, insightful weave of monologues, music, masks and movement,
Hanging... gives voice to the unspeakable truths of depression and suicide
in American culture. While Hanging... has dark themes, its message is one
of
survival and hope and is based on the true stories of suicide survivors
and those living with clinical depression.
- 1play = "Hanging On Your Every Word"
2name = Manfred Doetsch
3email = doetsch@hotmail.com
4rating = 5 Stars
5review = I caught a preview of Iambe's "Hanging On Your Every Word."
last night. This well oiled fast paced whirlwind of a show
uses a good deal of warped humor to tackle dark themes of ,
depression and suicide. One of the songs "When You Gotta Go!"
is both macabre, hilarious and very funny. It graphically
demonstrates 15 ways in which to kill yourself, from stepping of
the side walk into traffic to slitting your wrists.
Catch a performance of "When You Gotta Go!" at the fringe
cabaret this Friday night 10th at the Exit theatre on Eddy 11.30pm.
The under lining theme of the "Hanging" is deadly serious.
In the words of the playwright and director Suze Allen,
"This violent, sad thing that I didn't want or ask for
- suicide - roared into my life and dumped me on my
ass. Me a joyful person left a sniveling, lifeless idiot.
These words I wrote picked me up and put me on my path again."
Do go see "Hanging On You Every Word".
It is a production second to none.
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