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Tincture

by Sean Owens

review in the SF Bay Guardian June 4, 2003 (Chloe Veltman)

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In Sean Owens's tantalizing new play, six women repeatedly struggle to put their experiences into words: "It's like licking an impressionist painting and tasting chocolate," says one character. "I see other women smelling good," says another. Telling a twisty tale of the synesthetic relationships between six very different women through their quirky attitudes toward colors, the play is a funny and tender exploration of the widely differing ways people perceive the world around them. While one character is sick of a dull love life in which she seems to date only "taupe" men (who not only wear nondescript clothes but are equally bland in bed), another likes to slather all of her meals in food dye, preferring lilac-tinted milk to the regular white stuff. Despite Sharon Walton's elegantly and minimalistically staged production, the spunky ensemble cast has a tendency to pitch Owens's unctuous and at times garishly purple prose somewhere over the rainbow. If they toned it down a little, Tincture could be a pot of gold. (Veltman)
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