Jason Vizza and Melanie Keller as "a couple nearing an end"
A couple of weeks ago, Erica and I went to a benefit for Reverie Theatre Company that featured a performance of The Closer We Get by Chris Pomeroy. It was quite an extraordinary piece of theater. For an hour and a half, ten different scenes were performed simultaneously in different set-lets around the art gallery where the benefit was being held (except for the "Cupid" scene, which took place in the art gallery itself and was the only one to feature audible words) -- all having to do with different kinds of relationships at different stages: a couple on the verge of a breakup, a mother and child, a poet dealing with a failed relationship, a woman and her peeping tom, etc. At the start of the evening I thought it might be a bit hokey, but found it to be surprisingly powerful. Enough so that when it got a bit overwhelming, we'd go back and look at the mother and child for a while to reset. That kid was great!
More pictures after the jump...
Jorge Sanchez as "a struggling, manic-depressive poet"
Abram Rabinowitz as Cupid
Elizabeth Wetmore and Henry Sanchez as "a mother and her beloved newborn"
Melissa Hard as "a woman with a picnic basket, three nearly invisible friends, and a powerful imagination"
Fannie Hungerford as "a young, vengeful woman"
Gary Sugarman and Betsy Zajko as "a peeping tom and the object of his obsession"
tricia
So, you just walked by these little scenes? Could you ask them questions about what their particular scene was? And that baby with the sock monkey, cute. And was the guy playing Cupid cold???!?!?! Or did they just do the same things over and over, except for the baby, if he had cried, the woman would have had to respond. That's enough questions for now. Needless to say, there's nothing like that HERE!!!!
Erica
The plays were an hour and a half each and they each told a continuing story. You couldn't interact with them. So the woman and the baby for instance were just that. She was writing while caring for her baby--it was people just living a moment of their lives. And it totally made me cry.
As for Cupid, well, I don't know...we didn't ask him.
Fuzzy Gerdes
Cupid spent an hour or so chasing a normally-dressed woman around the gallery, trying to bring her flowers and food from the buffet and drinks and trying to engage her with comments about the plays and so on. She kept rebuffing him, finally shouting "it's OVER" a couple of times (which Erica thought was hilarious, since it meant that one point they had had a relationship) and then she left the gallery. That photo above is from when Cupid had collapsed from depression, and from drinking half that bottle of vodka.