Word: giardella
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...actress in Moment to Moment, Daena Giardella, improvises the entire show. Even though the program claims that the play is Giardella's commentary on life, her cryptic commentary makes no sense. In the first scene, two musicians play the drums and an organ for about ten minutes. They succeed only in lulling the audience to sleep...
...Giardella does sporadic handstands that are neither aesthetically appealing nor laden with symbolism. She dons ugly black leotards unbecoming of a forty-year-old woman throughout the play. Suddenly, she switches to the personality of a three year old girl in something she refers to as "regression." Attempting to show how her mother was once hard to hug, she clasps a huge wire to her chest. Most of the play seems intended only for those who have been through therapy...
...times, Giardella gets political--she does (unfunny) Norman Schwarzkopf and Clarence Thomas imitations. The one vaguely humorous line of the night came from an audience member. When Giardella offered a cigarette to a woman who had just walked into the theater the woman responded, "No thank you, I just want a seat...
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