No Traveler: A Comedy About Suicide

Pollak integrates music and dance to create a netherworld inhabited by desperate souls in search of redemption. With her expressive face and acrobatic abilities, she literally throws herself into her work, mining the dark subject matter for insight and comic gold, no matter how bitter the taste.... full review

“NO TRAVELER” (Platinum Medal) Written and flawlessly performed by Penny Pollak, with Lindsey Hope Pearlman directing “No Traveler” reveals itself part dance, part psychodrama, part vaudeville, part morality play and all diamond. I doubt that any tale of pain and despair has ever seen a wittier staging or suicide viewed in such a frisky light. Pollak portrays Abigail, an angst driven party girl who dances (literally) herself into an act of self destruction. She awakens to find herself in a tub, and the tub in purgatory. There she is given another chance at salvation if she can prevent another despairing soul from following the path she chose. But as good as Abigail was at screwing up her life, she’s even better at... full review