by 4 Cents Reviews on December 14, 2010
4 Cents Review – When 2 reviewers each give their 2 cents.
Today it takes both Tortora-Lees (Karen and Stephen) to give The Land Whale Murders the consideration it deserves.
For those of you who have already had the opportunity to experience a play by writer Jonathan A. Goldberg (such as The Luck of the Ibis) you’ll no doubt know what I mean when I say that it’s as if Goldberg lets both hands write two plays independently of each other simultaneously – one fully right brain, the other fully left – and then allows his subconscious to stitch them together till it all makes sense. This is his gift – this is where he succeeds when others fail. And this is why The Land Whale Murders is both difficult to describe, yet impossible to forget.
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by Karen Tortora-Lee on January 28, 2010
RUMSPRINGA! (OR - Jocelyn Kuritsky and Amy Landon telling "The Secrets of an Amish Ghost"; photo credit: Aaron Epstein)
Up front – full disclosure. For the first few minutes of The Luck of the Ibis I was a little confused by what was going on and therefore not fully checked into the play yet. I was waiting for something to click (something always does) and then the girl in the corner (Amy Landon) said Rumspringa. And boy oh boy, THAT made me perk up. I am an absolute FOOL for anything to do with Rumspringa, and I love any plot that can incorporate it, even vaguely. Even just in passing. Which … (more full disclosure) was about as much as it was mentioned here. (Oh, Rumspringa, we hardly knew ye). But the point is, it got my attention, and from that moment I was invested.
I tell this to you for a reason. Because The Luck of The Ibis (Written by Jonathan A. Goldberg and directed by Tom Ridgely) is filled with a whole lotta crazy and the only way to enjoy it (and you WILL enjoy it … I promise) is to find something to latch on to quickly and then just go with the crazy till it runs out.
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