So far I’m not going to see Revisited at the Metro, but this decision is totally arbitrary, made only because I’m already going to two other Intrepid Theatre productions in the next two weeks and I can’t handle any more.
Revisited sounds like a neat show; it all takes place around a big table, where both the performers and the audience are seated. I love the sudden appearance of these cool theatre gimmicks! (See also yesterday’s gimmick love.) For years I’ve only witnessed dumb “audience participation” moments where an actor offers snacks to the audience for no reason, or asks for volunteers to perform pointless tasks. This table seating sounds like it might actually convey meaning.
A man and an audience sit around a large wooden table in a theatre. The table is a stage, a small town, and a shared space of communion where the audience and performers meet in their imaginations to share a story of love, loss, and all the trivial and divine details in between that constitute our human lives. Performers Steven McCarthy and Michelle Montheith each play a handful of characters in this remarkable, austere, and moving act of theatrical slight-of-hand, from one of Canada’s most original and exciting theatre companies.
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