Monday, December 05, 2011

The Story of Mary MacLane by Herself

I wanted to like this one - starring and written by Bojana Novakovic, who impressed in both Eldorado a few years back and Woyzeck more recently, and interesting-sounding in the promotional grabs. But unfortunately it was a bit of a mess - a sometimes engaging one, but overall too loosely conceived to really work, even allowing that its terrain is more a sort of a-narratival, fourth wall-breaking invocation of an idea of a character than that of a conventional drama or depiction of a person's life. Admittedly, it might have helped had I known more about the titular figure before the performance - but nonetheless.


(w/ C)