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Pebble-and-Cart Cycle: one-line tragedies
Warehouse – Mainstage
Remaining Performance:
Sunday, July 19 @ 4:15 pm
They say: A woman battles a fly. Father has a horse attack. Brother turns into a goat. The Pebble-and-Cart Cycle unveils a spellbinding journey where folk legend, animal archetype and personal experience weave together to expose the theater of inner conflict.
Chris says:Two thoughts are jostling in my mind for attention. The first is that the Pebble-and-Cart Cycle is easily the best thing I’ve seen in two years of Fringe blogging. Happiness! The second is that there were only 14 people in the audience at the beginning, dwindling to 10 even before the intermission and 6 after the intermission. Despair!
True, there are no casual satisfactions to be gleaned from this work. There is neither comfort in watching a known story, nor ease in grasping a new one. So I understand why the defectors left. The fact that they did speaks volumes, however, about the state of both theater and audiences in the District. This being a city of institutions, we are surrounded by pimped-out art palaces that offer the most run-of-the-mill stuff in the most conventional productions. For heaven’s sake, even Woolly Mammoth–which I like more than any other theater in town–pretends that new equals daring.
