GIAONTHEMOVE.COM REVIEW BY TRACEY PALEO

Becoming Apparent

Apparently…Olga Konstantulakis began writing BECOMING APPARENT over a decade ago, during her first pregnancy, as a way to process her fear of becoming a mother. Her creative exploration has now developed into a more universal tale about how trauma lives in the body, and how the path toward wholeness is never linear. Honestly, though, it’s still very personal.
Now that that’s out of the way…(Whew!)

She wasn’t kidding about the non-linear trajectory of becoming whole. Like the memories of her life that surface, in unexpected moments, the entire production jumps constantly from external to internal. And more often both at the same time.

Konstantulakis has honed her character portrayals to perfection.

These include, herself and younger self, her daughter, her husband, her mother and more. Some of them quite startling. Especially when confronting her growing up with a religious zealot for a father. Honestly, the flashbacks were even frightening and sad to witness. Which makes her journey to herself even more remarkable. But throughout the beautifully written, timed and performed, poetry, prose and movement interjections, Konstantulakis exquisitely hones in on the simplest of objectives. And Elina De Santos’ direction pulls out the best that this narrative has to offer.

Konstantulakis’ story is innocent and evocative, forthright and so completely relatable. And so it is no surprise that the sum of BECOMING APPARENT’s parts is as profound as it is plainly human.

We’re sincerely glad she made it.

Very Highly Recommended

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