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Posted by Slay on Wednesday, May 19, 2010
A combination of drama, dance, movement, projected images and live video make this the most multimedia show the adventurous troupe has staged yet. But its main strength is its cast, which brings to life the numerous unnamed characters who either know or think they know Anne ... It takes acting chops to bring out the underlying emotions in these anonymous characters’ lines, and they’re provided by Emily Bach, Meghan Durham, Susie Gerald, Ellen Knolls, Joyce Leahy, Krista Lively Stauffer, Shanelle Marie and Dayle Towarnicky
Columbus Alive
Director Matt Slaybaugh, the eight members of his all-female cast and their collaborators have shaped an absorbing evening of theater out of a text that gives absolutely no clue of setting, action, number of performers, who says what or any of the things we usually expect a play to present ... The cast is uniformly excellent at leading the audience through Crimp's maze. As he puts it, what they do is "more exacting than acting."


