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The floor is patent-leather glossy, a lake of black ice.
The arch swims into position for a later scene because, unbelievably, these mammoths move.
Pushed on hydraulic carts, they glide through the Armory like whales.
Whenever theyre sliding along, Daniel Klugers horn-filled score half triumphant, half chilling fills the air.
Imagine if some night you went out to Storm King and the Serra sculptures started waltzing.
Rather, its been created by the Armory itself.
That design-forward production did well, so why not another?
We apart from, say, Robert Wilson rarely make this sort of thing.
And Harris is proof-of-concept: Shes as exaggerated as a George Grosz painting, yet somehow also completely believable.
But everyone else, even strikingly fine actors, seems stranded.
But Jones seems to be moving his cast from image to image rather than moment to moment.
He hasnt given Bresnahan much character guidance (is she a shrew or a nut or what?
What, at the end of the day, does it mean that this town drives a man insane?
Is it just an occasion for another stage picture?
The actors need a hand.
The old JACK was the sort of weirdo room that only a found venue can be.
The new JACK, though, is ideal.
Its tiny and spare, with elegant wooden floors and an exposed-brick wall.
Playwright Adamson has developed a densely written rat-a-tat rhythm millennial screwball while also transmitting a sense of deep unease.
It might mean nothing … or everything.
The director Will Detlefson does strong work with his cast, which has several stand-outs.
Paredes is the perfect center for this often wandering shaggy-dog story, unaffected and magnetic.
And Fredrick, in the showier role, is a syringe of adrenaline.
Its weird, Phoebe notes, that Nina keeps adding so many exclamation points!
And words of affection!
The play has many themes, but this is its dramaturgical question.
If this is what anger sounds like now, what language do we reserve for love?
Judgment Dayis at the Park Avenue Armory through January 10.The Straightsis at JACK through December 21.
