Word: senclick
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...playing games, tag and such. A few laughs. Young, happy smiles. Meaningful interaction; instant commune. What, this pseudo-Grotowskian exercise crap, this is HARPO? But wait, that clown drooling into the bucket, the increasingly precise blocking pattern, the scene titles, then the impeccable cockney accents; this is pure Larry Senclick, the master of the rococo basics, Harvard's exponent of technical theatricality, a man who has an amazing talent for layering upon any script a tremendous variety of gimmicks, jokes, and cheap bits, and proceeding to hit them so hard that most of them work...
...Seeing Senclick always leaves one winded, but never exhilarated. Anything You Say Will Be Tuisted is no exception. It is an entertainment experience in and of itself, demanding little prior knowledge and no future reflection. It does nothing more than allow the audience and cast to have fun. Such an approach to theatre is by its very nature limited. Senelick and his cast are intensely aware of these limits, and for the most part stay within them. The production only falters when it attempts to ascend to purposeless artiness or descend into calculated spontaneity...
...Senclick explains his Oedipus best by calling it a ritual. It is somewhat like Shakesepare's The Winter's Tale as a celebration of natural harmony and order, and an acceptance of human imperfection. Senclick at times seems possessed by these imperfections...
Despite its plea for uncomplicated emotions, this is a lavish production. Senclick clearly has a vision of the theater that has matured to the point of developing contradictions and he has wisely allowed them to stand unresolved. As locasto says, "Truth is not human. It has no mercy...
Seneca's Oedpius is an exciting and challenging production. Much of the acting is very good. Shcila Hart as Iocasta and Jack Shea as Tiresias are particularly strong. Wakeen Ray-Riv's choreography is superb, and exploits the extremely-limited Agassiz stage to the fullest. Senclick's direction is intentionally upsetting. Yet it must be admitted that even a ritualized Theater of Cruclty cannot escape being theater. And as long as that is true, I prefer Sophocles's pretension to human reality to Seneca...