Minnaby Howard Barker
Cast: Kevin Cox, Gary Damico, Geraldine Dulex, John Gray, David A Holcombe, John Kahara, Amber Lageman, Pamela Maurer, Kinga Modjeska, Sadie Rogers, Derek Ryan, and Carl Wisniewski
Set in a mythical world that swings between the 18th Century and the 1950's, Minna is Howard Barker's ferocious view of war and sexual politics. Minna Von Barnhelm is the light and airy heroine of Lessing's Enlightenment-era comedy, but in Barker's nightmarish world, her single minded pursuit of atrocity compels her to commit atrocity herself. "A hallucinatory parade of images on the theme that human beings are rational, intelligent creatures prone to irrational, brutish behavior. Barker's MINNA is violent, grotesque, wantonly sexual, and absurd... and in the hands of first-time director Nicole Wiesner, it's also thought-provoking, visceral, and darkly funny. The ensemble's passionate but precise performances are supported by imaginative set, costume, and sound design that immerse actors and audience alike in a vivid dream world." "Nicole Wiesner’s laudably intense and physically thorough rendition… is staged with a great deal of imagination" "Dark...kinky...a richly evocative landscape of fear." "Wiesner creates bracing stage pictures in this stylish production," "Never at a loss for parameter stretching and boundary challenging material, Trap Door Theatre presents a captivating production of Minna. It'd is just the kind of pot that Trap Door stirs with beguiling results and director Nicole Wiesner brilliantly creates this nightmarish reality with both visual lyricism and explosive whimsy in this haunted house of catastrophic madness. A compelling spectacle of dramatic lunacy." "If the actors in this Trap Door production dared to let us in on the joke for an instant, Barker's tantrum would collapse like a circus tent in wet snow. Fortunately, director Nicole Wiesner and her athletic cast have had years of expertise at this brand of roll-on-the-floor-and-stick-out-your-tongue social analysis, diving feet-first into each isolated moment…a prodigious spectacle supplied by the ensemble of physical and verbally agile players."
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