Comments on: Not Even a Hip Shot: ‘The Dream-Casting’ http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/fringe/2008/07/20/not-even-a-hip-shot-the-dream-casting/ Blogging the Capital Fringe Festival 2009 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:41:16 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Bob Morrison http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/fringe/2008/07/20/not-even-a-hip-shot-the-dream-casting/comment-page-1/#comment-10807 Bob Morrison Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:22:43 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/fringe/?p=185#comment-10807 Hey, c'mon Trey and Michael. Open up the right hemispheres of your brains. Y'all are over intellectualizing this. Even if all you say is true, you've missed the point. You have to experience this show and when you do, its faults fade. This is a gut-level performance, the most so of any Fringe show I've seen. That's an achievement in itself. Don't just watch and listen. Absorb. Hey, c’mon Trey and Michael. Open up the right hemispheres of your brains. Y’all are over intellectualizing this. Even if all you say is true, you’ve missed the point. You have to experience this show and when you do, its faults fade. This is a gut-level performance, the most so of any Fringe show I’ve seen. That’s an achievement in itself. Don’t just watch and listen. Absorb.

]]> By: alex http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/fringe/2008/07/20/not-even-a-hip-shot-the-dream-casting/comment-page-1/#comment-10671 alex Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:50:45 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/fringe/?p=185#comment-10671 wow i like the fringe of this show, it was dreamy, very different from all the pro-shops in the dc wanna be fringe. i think this guy is on it, he really gets the idea behind a living installation, a dreamscape. its tough for conservative DC types and republicans to think spatial time. this theatre is fantastic and Im going to tell everyone i know to go see it.. the puppets were typical of mexico, the style organic. i thought the hand held puppet drag queens were a riot. the spider creepy, this guy knows his symbolism, and i guess the jab at the current button-lipped society of DC had better wake up, because when Obama arrives, there will be more super cool back roads art of this style .... thank you teatro jaguar luna! wow

i like the fringe of this show, it was dreamy, very different from all the pro-shops in the dc wanna be fringe. i think this guy is on it, he really gets the idea behind a living installation, a dreamscape. its tough for conservative DC types and republicans to think spatial time. this theatre is fantastic and Im going to tell everyone i know to go see it.. the puppets were typical of mexico, the style organic. i thought the hand held puppet drag queens were a riot. the spider creepy, this guy knows his symbolism, and i guess the jab at the current button-lipped society of DC had better wake up,

because when Obama arrives, there will be more super cool back roads art of this style ….

thank you teatro jaguar luna!

]]> By: Michael http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/fringe/2008/07/20/not-even-a-hip-shot-the-dream-casting/comment-page-1/#comment-10593 Michael Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:23:29 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/fringe/?p=185#comment-10593 What do you get when you put three guys, some peyote, and a mess of papier-mache together. The Dream-Casting! I was really looking forward to this one- sort of the kind of Bread-and-Puppet Theatre "events" that I was raised on. What I got, instead, besides the aforementioned yellow rose (which might or might not be symbolically linked to Texas- who could tell?) was a lot of very big masks, the best of which looked like some sort of Mayan gods, the worst looking like what a kindergartener might make, some highly uncoordinated dancing, a puppet show with a clearly improvised and incoherent script, some sort of aliens/mystical beings, interesting but uncategorizable music overdubbed with spoken words so reverbed that they were indecipherable, an array of strange images, and a plea to help create a unified dream out of the disparate images from our own dreams. I am glad that my wife wasn't sitting next to me, or I might not have been able to keep from laughing, especially when the giant, luminous-legged spider tempted me with his purple yarn. What do you get when you put three guys, some peyote, and a mess of papier-mache together. The Dream-Casting! I was really looking forward to this one- sort of the kind of Bread-and-Puppet Theatre “events” that I was raised on. What I got, instead, besides the aforementioned yellow rose (which might or might not be symbolically linked to Texas- who could tell?) was a lot of very big masks, the best of which looked like some sort of Mayan gods, the worst looking like what a kindergartener might make, some highly uncoordinated dancing, a puppet show with a clearly improvised and incoherent script, some sort of aliens/mystical beings, interesting but uncategorizable music overdubbed with spoken words so reverbed that they were indecipherable, an array of strange images, and a plea to help create a unified dream out of the disparate images from our own dreams. I am glad that my wife wasn’t sitting next to me, or I might not have been able to keep from laughing, especially when the giant, luminous-legged spider tempted me with his purple yarn.

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