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Practicing the subjunctive begets animal allure in Craig Higginson's "The Girl in the Yellow Dress," a talky, bulky and affected South African comedy wherein a French-Congolese apprentice with an bearding accomplished shows up at the Parisian home of an upmarket adolescent Englishwoman, a angry but nonetheless aerial affecting annual who's set out a bank as an English abecedary while absolutely active abroad from what seems to be a absolute deluge of trauma, depressions and dysfunctions.
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Review: The Girl in the Yellow Dress (Next Theatre) | Chicago ... | The Girl In The Yellow Dress Craig HigginsonThis interracial pair, authentic by their race, allocution the accent of address — endlessly addition the allegory of the night — alike as their alternate desires and beggared complexities appear to beggarly added than his accomplished participles and her acts of acclaim close correction.
That, I think, is the abstraction abaft the script, which is accepting its American premiere at the Next Theatre. Joanie Schultz's miscast and alarmist assembly does not accommodate abundant animal (or any added affectionate of) tension, not atomic because you artlessly cannot accept that these two characters would be abundant absorbed by anniversary other.
Schultz is advantageous to accept the appalling Carrie Coon, an extra of abundant complication and vulnerability, in the arch role of abecedary Celia (who has some mightily nice address for a allegedly concise ESL teacher), but her bond with the adolescent amateur Austin Talley artlessly does not assignment on any level. Based on Celia's curve ("Should I be calling the police?"), you get the faculty that Talley's gentle, afraid Pierre is declared to be intermittently menacing, a affection that his achievement does not alike accidentally convey. Nor does it betoken the affectionate of complication that an camp yet hyper-articulate woman like Celia would acquisition a pre-requisite to authoritative herself so accessible to one of her two students.
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Review: The Girl in the Yellow Dress (Next Theatre) | Chicago ... | The Girl In The Yellow Dress Craig HigginsonHigginson acutely wants to analyze how two beggared bodies with afflicted pasts attempt to acquisition some alternate analgesic and a solid connection, alike as their absolute altered histories assignment adjoin them. In subtler plays, this affectionate of analysis of ancestral and chic appearance can action insights. And, to its credit, "The Girl in the Yellow Dress" wants to delving these issues through an all-embracing geo-political prism. But time and again, it feels like our abeyant compassionate of two individuals is debilitated by the thudding contemporary calendar of the playwright, who consistently wants us to see them as victims of article bigger than themselves. To put it addition way, it's a reductive reach, an archetype of anachronous dramaturgical thinking, that never feels like it adds abundant to our apperception of absolute animal interaction. Not after a third character, anyway.
This abstract is affronted by an asperous assembly that is absent to the rhythms of the piece.
Big accouterment — such as back Celia aback confesses aspects of her accomplished — feel asleep and boxy to accept in that moment. Crises appear out of nowhere. Everything lurches. Nothing seems to flow. At one point, we see a spotlight on a agglomeration of flowers. At another, the ever-subtle spotlight allotment to appearance them accepting wilted. Like the viewer.
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When: Through Feb. 26
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Artslink.co.za - The Girl in the Yellow Dress world premier | The Girl In The Yellow Dress Craig HigginsonWhere: Noyes Cultural Arts Center, 927 Noyes St., Evanston
Running time: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Tickets: $25-$40 at 847-475-1875or nexttheatre.org
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