The ensemble of take rimbaud | Photo by Wade Muir
take rimbaud hits so fucking good, is so my thing, I don’t even know where to start. A joint presentation by The Howland Company and Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, ted witzel’s whimsical, theatre-punk direction of Susanna Fournier’s cerebral-sensual ode to the art life is so teeming with audio-visual textures and ideas both expansive and specific, it pretty much swallowed me whole.
And do I now have a crush on Rose Tuong? Yes. They play the intensely charismatic, highly androgynous Sapph, a version of the poet Sappho who, like everyone here, exists across time. She’s both ancient and of the now. And she’s confronting, ugh… public discourse.
“It’s so loud out there.” Continue Reading