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Rachael Duddy, Ashley Perez Flanagan, and Hannah Whitney are a captivating trio with a beautiful vocal blend.
For all their imaginative capacity, theater folk sometimes have a hard time believing in believers.
Darkness and light,In the Greenimplies, are not opposing poles but yet another infinite loop.
(The only Northern town in the South, Cale sings of it.
Every day it feels like winter / Mocked in plays by Harold Pinter.)
Hes not going for flawless or classical or even consistently beautiful.
Of the makeshift Bird and Animal Hospital he put together in his familys backyard shed.
They met at a dance for employees in Lutons hat factories.
They had two sons.
They lived in the suburbs.
What ultimately happened in their house feels like something out of a Greek tragedy.
Cales play isnt a tragedy, though its a kind of passage.
Its unblinking and curious, vulnerable and open-hearted without being soppy.
Is my 10-year-old boy trying to seduce the 15-year-old next door?
Barbara thinks to herself, not with panic but with bemused wonderment.
Have I given birth to the Little Lolita of Luton?
Cales embodiment of Barbara is a meticulous, loving slow burn.
Its sadness is that its a patchwork of speculation: Who was this invisible woman?
I mean, Im looking at you right now.
And the miraculous thing is, something shimmers through her son, and she is.
The songs come when they have to, when someone is reaching, struggling to break out of themselves.
Theyre about longing, freedom, and glimpses of the weird and beautiful.
They are the flight of wingless creatures.
Rons song is a desperate facsimile.
