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Monday, April 27, 2009
Looking at the Sky
It's tricky reviewing Sky Gilbert if you have any sense at all of his career as a writer and theatre artist. In any production, his voice is always one of the most overwhelming factors. This time, you think, I'm going to focus on the performances or the set design or even the music, but no. You can't not dedicate the lion's share of a 300-word review to a voice that drives everything else. This time especially, Gavin Crawford so explictly channelled Gilbert, it was impossible to ignore it. Then there are Sky's writing habits: the fantastic one-liners and the wry observations floating along on a shaggy structure. For audiences who have seen Gilbert's work before, the most important information a review can give them is whether these two boxes--inscapable voice and whether it needs editing--are ticked or not. For newbies, I suppose they'll find out for themselves.
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