Thu 5/25-Sat 6/17 @ 7:30PM
There they go again! The folks at Cleveland Public Theatre have never been content just to put on plays. They keep inventing their own forms of theater to convey their complex ideas.
Red Ash Mosaic is the latest such endeavor, “a deep dive into poetic theater.” And being something completely different, it’s hard to get a handle on what it is before seeing it. They describe it “an experiment in theatrical form, with interwoven and contradictory narrative threads, powerful physical action, chanting and poetic texts — designed not to show, but to invoke; not a presentation, but a transmission.”
Directed by CPT’s artistic director Raymond Bobgan and created by Bobgan and the Cleveland Core Ensemble — Dionne Atchison, Raymond Bobgan, Faye Hargate, Adam Seeholzer, Darius Stubbs and Holly Holsinger, Colleen McCaughey and Sarah Moore —the piece, which demands audience interaction, is the result of two years of specialized training on the part of the ensemble to execute the layered movements and original, a cappella music, and developing a specific distinctive approach to creating the design elements.
All of that fuels a concept about “ancient and psychologically embedded stories and their impact on our daily life,” and “the search for a connection to something bigger than our temporary lives and how that enriches, disrupts and haunts us.”
Red Ash Mosaic opens with previews Thu 5/25-Sat 5/27 and Thu 6/1. It runs Thu-say & Mon through Sat 6/17. (No show Mon 5/29). Tickets are $12-$30.
Cleveland, OH 44102