What I liked
I liked watching the actors who were waiting to do their lines when the scene was away from them, they were completely involved emotionally as to what was going on. They never got disconnected from the beat and movements. Everyone was so locked in. It wasn’t about an individual performance it was clearly dependent on every link meshing so well together. It was spectacular.
What I didn't like
The only thing that could have been improved is my own timing, I wish I saw this Play sooner. It’s truly inspiring watching artists create and perform and turn ideas and words on a page into reality.
My overall impression
I love when you get hit with the lucky fortunes in life. Seeing the the “Oh Constantine” play written, directed and produced by Jan-David Soutar is one of those lucky fortunes. Being able to catch this in an intimate 70+ theatre knowing it’ll soon play for a thousand seat theatre is of great magnitude for me. I love watching flights take off, there’s a specialness to seeing it all come together.
Sports championships are won by the people on the bench, they have to be able to carry the ship when it’s their time and hearing the stories come out after the play of Understudies staying ready so they didn’t have to get ready, was the most beautiful acknowledgement of team work and why this play plays so well. The casting is simply brilliant. There’s no substitute for a great team.
Clent Bowers sets the tone for the entirety, directly vocalizing to the audience what’s in front of us. His stage presence allows every actor to come and go big and small. The pieces of the story are deep and dark but are played through variations of hilarity and anger, the blends happen quickly and seamlessly keeping you on your toes. The Lead Cameron Ley drives the show with the cast and you could tell it had an end goal and they were always going to get us there. They felt in complete control of us from beginning to end. The storyline itself rooted from 325 A.D. and being 89% factual, and the sprinkling multi-blend of language and current events from present time to feel in the “now,” was marvelous.
Honestly speaking my favorite singular part was from the comedic work of Gabriel Bellotti, his introspective questions about God, they begin at such a rapid pace and are long winded, your head is spinning, and just as you feel his introspective yearning for answers of the Lord are winding down he’s actually winding up. The Morse code of comedy rapid attack was spectacular.
“I didn’t know what I was walking into but I most certainly knew what I was walking out of, I was witnessing brilliance from the mind of Jan-David Soutar. It’s a tremendous honor when you get to plug yourself into someone else’s mind who’s certainly bent around pushing ideas, concepts and boundaries. What boundaries? I’m sure he’s never heard of such a word-
