Danger Signals

See it if you don't need a fully coherent story, just strong visuals & compelling performers.

Don't see it if you have little tolerance for theater experiment that leaves lots of loose ends for you to tie together yourself (or not)

Also The visual design in this piece is strong, & I love its central stage image: A woman, lecturing on the human brain in NYC in 2018 from within a human brain herself, is frozen by the impossible task. The script, 3 strands of a “brain” story, fascinating by flashes, comes up short. Each of 3 characters embodies a strand. A woman in bird garb details a 1930s operation performed on twin female chimpanzees & its legacy of human frontal lobotomies in later decades. A male performer embodies a tale of a doomed expedition to the frozen North in the early 19th century, & he’s a brain doctor. There are thematic intersections among the strands. But I wanted some sense of how the past stories informed the present 1, especially when the lecturer & the explorer break from character & have a fight so intense that the guy walks off for good. How do macho traditions (doomed explorations, mistaken expertise) inform current practice on brain injury & the woman lecturer’s viscerally compelling freeze?... Read more Read less

See it if You want to challenge yourself with something unusual. Interesting themes expressed using nontraditional nonlinear techniques.

Don't see it if If you expect a plot or consistent characters. Or a full evening's activity - running time under an hour.

See it if You are deeply enamoured of the creative, downtown, experimental style in your theater, and are not disappointed when it fails.

Don't see it if You prefer that there be one story, or if multiples, that they contribute to each other and produce an evening you can throw a rope around.

See it if you want to see something vibrant and intelligent. It has something to say and it knows how to say it.

Don't see it if you dislike non-linear narrative structures or require a play to hold your hand and concisely explain itself to you

Also Violent. Disparate. Exhilarating.
A TRULY GREAT PIECE OF THEATRE.... Read more Read less

See it if you love experimental non-linear, but well-constructed theatre, unafraid to explore ways of expressing ideas in unique ways

Don't see it if you hate all of the above; If you fear your 'this is what I like' paradigm being challenged