My overall impression
This was my first time to experience the Fringe Festival and I managed to squeeze in two performances this past Saturday (6/11) this being the second one, and thank God I did!
Carla Snowden is a breath of fresh air and had the audience laughing the whole way through with her clever dialogue and great facial expressions, and when she started to cry near the end, had me wiping away tears of my own.
The story was quick paced moving forward where she was “volunteering” with the aging sisters in their rest home, giving her “confession” to the priest, and yet managed to cover several back story experiences of Carla as a young girl in her early school days and bouncing back to the current time without missing a beat and making sure we had the background needed to get to that final confession. (I especially loved the crowning of the Prom “Princess” and how she could have been like Mary, except she wasn’t a “virgin.”)
Anyone who can perform with emotion so many parts in one room and in one hour has my admiration and awe anyway, and this is a production I’d be willing to see more than once. I couldn’t quit talking about it afterwards and even posted a recommendation on my office Intranet to go see Sister Mary Liar when I got to work on Monday.
I will definitely keep Carla Snowden on my radar and watch for anything else she writes or performs. Bravo Carla! You definitely earned your standing ovation Saturday night.
