Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Stage review: 'Measure Back' confronts audience
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: As if we needed another reminder that war is hell, the audience for the Festival of First's drama "Measure Back" began the two-hour evening sitting on cement blocks. It might have been too literal to begin with, being staged in the Baum Building, once the office of a well-advertised Pittsburgh dentist and inspiring a schoolchild joke from the 1950s:
"Did you hear there was an explosion Downtown?"
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"A work in progress" is a very accurate description of Measure Back. The show provided a lot of excellent, compelling imagery. When it began it seemed like it was verging on something that could have been spectacular, but the build up was ultimately its detriment. As the show went on it got less cohesive and devolved into a bizarre nightmare that left a lot of questions unanswered. This review is actually the fairest and most generous feedback I have heard about this performance.
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