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| Franc Gaxiola photo by Michael Sean LeSueur |
"A streak of madness reigns on the unadorned stage of B3 Productions as two one-acters explore the thin lines that separate truth from fiction, love from hate, and piety from hypocrisy.... a match-up of plays that feature riveting performances by Kim Lavelle and Mr. Gaxiola,...In Ilana Lydia's TRUE BELIEVER. Lavelle's Maria Santiago Ionesco, clad in a frumpy nun's habit and hawking for alms, is a self-described tinkerer of souls and an unapologetic apostle of a god ...She is in love with her calling and, in its pursuit, she engages a prospect for conversion to her unorthodox sect. ...Ms. Lavelle's appearance as the curiously reverent but irreversibly unhinged nun is a work of mercurial quality. Franc Gaxiola follows with a knockout performance in Andrew Eninger's bizarre morality play, THE LAST CASTRATO. The central figure is disfigured. Joseph, born fully intact with the exception of his genitals...meets and falls in love with Elena who was no skin in the game of life ~ she was born inside out ~ but is blessed with a crystalline voice. Joseph's desperation for meaning and worth is relieved when he and Elena contrive a plan that enables them both to be fulfilled, so to speak. ...Gaxiola brings urgency and humanity to a lost soul seeking the answers to these questions ~ in a quest to discover his redeeming value. His face is a roadmap to a maze of emotions. ..B3 Productions' double bill of TRUE BELIEVER and THE LAST CASTRATO runs through November 18th at the SIC Sense Theatre on 1902 E McDowell Road in Phoenix. " - Herbert Paine, Broadway World (click here to read the complete review)
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