THEATER REVIEW - Broad Stage = MYTHICAL PLAYGROUND: BRAZIL - TINEE WAS THERE

MYTHICAL PLAYGROUND: BRAZIL

THE REVIEWS ARE IN!!!

Friday night around the dinner table, the girls (Esmé &Üla’ - 7 & 10 year old sisters ) shared what they witnessed and experienced at Mythical Playground: Brazil.

Esmé really liked the girl on the piano (Actress Julia Keefe), but she preferred (Actress Cassandra Nwokah) the house slave.

She was fixated on how Cassandra was bent and learned different ways to convey age and culture with clothes and accents.

Cassandra gave space around everything she said, to convey import.

Üla’s was most impressed with the student (Actor Colin Simon) of the Shaman (Actor Vikas Adam) (Esmé called the Shaman the Chief).  She acted out his bird imitation and the Shaman’s lines word for word.

Üla really liked when he (Colin) rolled out his long name and she (Julia) asked what it meant and he said, “boy.” She so got the joke.

Esmé jumped on the fact that the student’s (Colin) voice went up when he asked the girl (Julia) “can you play more for ME?”

They both loved the (Interaction & Sing-A-Long) call to response portions.  And it didn't seem like too much for them.  They absorbed it all.

They both alluded to the Termite joke in different ways this weekend.  Parodying it and when a comparison was made with a group of people on a show, Üla said, no mom, the termites are white those people aren't.  And we all loved the interaction on the fly when the kid in the audience said, “She doesn't look like a termite.” Colin's ad lib and said "No, she doesn't, she looks like a Princess."  So well played.

And I had fears that more and more children would rise from the audience and overwhelm the performers – but it was perfect. 

We enjoyed it and are still unraveling the complexity that Mythical Playground: Brazil gave a basis for.  Thank you