EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR (EPBB)

Ok everyone grab hold of your seats! This is a theatre experience you don't want to miss. You want to be in the insiders crowd...this is your ticket! And for FREE! All you have to do is KNOW ABOUT IT! Right now go on Facebook and like Exit, Pursued By a Bear and also go to their website: http://www.epbb.orgd

Three weeks ago I received an email from EPBB, that a new play was being produced. So I snatched up my ticket fast for this event and the play is called:

Greater Angels

by Jason Williamson

directed by Ed Sylvanus Iskandar

Taking the trek down to Bowling Green (NYC, not KY) was quite the hike, but the short wait outside the creepy loft building, which was filled with pure entertainment, flowing alcohol, delicious vegetarian chili, and smart direction was well worth it! The maximum capacity seemed to be about 30 people, so I felt like a queen mingling amongst the inner circle of NY THEATRE! The humble actors also poured wine as they greeted you into the space and served me dinner during the intermission.  

Critique time, I'm still a bit unsettled by the writing and I cannot tell if it is the time period, melodramatic Civil War heightened language or the need to make everything melodramatic because it's the Civil War... do you catch my drift... (granted this could be the three glasses of wine that Jonathan David poured me *my big actor crush). Anyways I was held captivated by the story because the actors were literally an inch away from me. Yet if this was presented on an Off-Broadway stage... I think I would have passed out from the two glasses of wine my love had poured for me before even making it to intermission. 

But that said, the crisp transitions kept the play moving, as well as the beautiful costumes, that kept me in the 'period' of the show. I can't wait to wine and dine at my next EPBB event! I hope that more of these theatre salon experiences pop up around NYC! I see it with my own college community, sharing work amongst Muhlenberg alumni, through the FISHBOWL COLLECTIVE!  Most of EPBB are Carnegie Mellon alumni! 

My next show this week is called:

Women of Will 

By Tina Pack

Directed by Eric Tucker

Here's a short synopsis from the website: A combination of riveting scenes and trenchant analysis, Women of Will, The Complete Journeyexplores themes of love, loss, freedom, control, violence and power through the heroines of Shakespeare’s text. Using performance and discussion, Packer traces the chronological evolution of Shakespeare’s female characters, and examines Shakespeare’s own journey and growth as a writer.