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SLAP!
OR, SCHOOL FOR SLAVES Carla Gant’s costumes were clever in their pageant of quintessential role-playing conture: girl scout, leather boy, virginal bride. John Verlardi’s set had a nebulous, otherworldly feel to it. George Cameron’s sound design was good and harsh, but his lighting scheme was too bright, where more shadows and reds would ahve felt more at one with the script. Also, the small house at the Trocadero made the mimed nature of the whippings and kickings a bit too apparent, and the waiter’s taking drink orders throughout the show was distracting, especially for material so intense. As the man, Mark Hamlet did a strong job of showing the pain within that would make someone want to whip another person. As the woman, Lissa Moira was an engaging enigma, at times a pulsing organ of utter willfulness, at others a wounded faun totally helpless. |