LEMON GIRLS
by Ellen Maddow
dir. by Paul Zimet
LaMama Theater, 2022
set and video design
Choreography: Sean Donovan, Costumes: Kiki Smith, Sound: Tyler Kieffer, Lighting: Mary Ellen Stebbins
A comedic and revelatory music and dance/theater celebration of older women and the thrill of unlikely art.
“They assemble regularly at a bustling downtown coffee shop (Anna Kiraly’s elegant set segues easily from its snug interior to the wide-open space of a local community center) where, one frigid day, an older gay man named Sid (veteran actor Jack Wetherall), wearing a color-block jacket, recruits them into a “performance art workshop.” The Village Voice
Anna Kiraly’s set is anchored by the slightly raised Café Solo at the corner of stage right, covered by a blue curtain when the action is taking place in the central makeshift workshop space, where a door leads beyond. The characters open and close the curtain as scenes there begin and end; on the back wall of the café, Kiraly projects pixelated, abstracted black-and-white footage of younger people hanging out in the shop, which the four women ignore. This Week in Theater
