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Posted by admin on March 20, 2009
Flip Side - Connelly Theater, NYC
nytheatre.com review by: Martin Denton • September 30, 2008
"Clever costuming and dazzling video design facilitate the double-casting, the one making it easy for us to know who's who and the other providing a wondrous way for characters to see and/or talk to one another without having to actually clone anyone.
I don't want to give too much away about Anna Kiraly's remarkable video and set design, but let me repeat that it's the most dexterous use of multimedia I've ever come across. There are some moments that just take the breath away, they're so beautiful and simple and elegant."
A comedy of longing, misperceptions, and mismatches, two sets of characters occupy two different worlds. The inhabitants of Drizzle Plaza - a bleak and empty place, like a city where everyone has gone on vacation - are drowning in the seductive power of infatuation, yearning, and regret. Meanwhile, on the flip side, is the Waterfall family in a world of constant motion and relentless cheerfulness with a dose of claustrophobia. And then the worlds being to mingle.
Flip Side is the product of an unconventional collaboration, inverting the traditional creative process by designing a set first and then writing the play inspired by the visual/physical environment.
written by Ellen Maddow, directed by Paul Zimet, set design by Anna Kiraly, music by "Blue" Gene Tyranny, costumes by Kiki Smith, lights by Nan Zhang, puppets by Ralph Lee, sound and video realization by David Wiggall, Stage Manager, Denise Cardarelli
with Will Badgett, David Brooks, John Hellweg, Sue Jean Kim, Heidi Schreck, and Tina Shepard