Monday, January 23, 2023

Review Highlights: CONSTELLATIONS - The Phoenix Theatre Company

Emily Mohney and Louis Farber
Photo by Reg Madison Photography

highlights from local critics reviews - (click link at bottom of each review to read complete review)

Click here for more information on this production that runs through January 29

"Payne's play is an intriguing theatrical journey into a vast multiverse that seems to have no limits or boundaries. The Phoenix Theatre Company's production features wonderful performances by Emily Mohney and Louis Farber, clear and precise direction, and creative designs that heighten and elevate the multiverse experience. With lines of dialogue and interactions between the two delivered repeatedly with different inflections and altered physical demeanor each time, as well as the addition or deletion of certain words, we witness how the relationship between Marianne and Roland is shown to have had an exponential number of possible outcomes. While the repeated scenes delivered in different ways could come across as an audition or rehearsal exercise in less skilled hands, under Karla Koskinen's precise direction and through the spotless performances by Emily Mohney and Louis Farber (who are a couple in real life, so their chemistry is palpable), a dazzling display of words and emotions is formed." - Gil Benbrook, TalkinBroadway.com (click here to read the complete review)

" features two persuasive performances by local actors who portray Cambridge University physicist Marianne and her beekeeper partner Roland. The pair’s love story and their communication issues are explored within the context of modern physics.  The short play explores its theme with just enough repletion to avoid boredom....TPTC’s thoughtful and well produced “Constellations” is a fascinating look at our daily communications and how important it is that we say things with meticulous considerations to what the people we are communicating understand and the importance of imparting feelings with our discussions of anything."   -Chris Curcio, Curtain Up Phoenix (click here to read the complete review)

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