Theater: Bushwick Starr / 207 Starr St, New York, New York, 11237
A musical fever-dream delivered by a chorus of some of downtown's smartest new talent, Evelyn is an idiosyncratic genre mash-up and a haunting yet humorously parodic love letter to things past. Riffing on the classic stranger-comes-to-town-story, Evelyn uses Nellie Tinder's unique stylization of movement, music and text to explore the relationship of reality to artifice, even in the most dramatic of situations.
February 28, 2012: Mixing elements of drama and musical theater as well as intimate realism and mythic tragedy, “Evelyn,” a jittery new play by Julia May Jonas set in a Pennsylvania mental institution, has a touch of madness. But not nearly enough.
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