GRAIL PROJECT

ensemble theatre · theatre movement bazaar · Ages 8+ · United States of America

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Review by EDWARD GOODMAN

June 12, 2019
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What I liked

From the opening image to the final black out, this is the one.

I’m a neophyte in these matters – so much so I had to look up that word – so I may be describing a show everybody’s seen some version of. But I’ve not seen this combination of so many artistic forms executed so well in such an explosive package. This thing just keeps unfolding and evolving and as it does it just pulls you in deeper and deeper. Funny, moving, stunning, all the regular review words seem trite. I couldn’t believe I just wandered into a theater and had this happen in front of me. The kind of show you leave feeling a little more human.

The movement and patterns, the structure and the breaking of it, and then they drop a couple of hard elbows on you just to make sure you got the full picture. In 2019, I have no problem with the hard elbow. The fact that it’s supported by this impossible show makes it all the more effective.

The Grail Project transcends all this stuff I’m saying. I loved this show. I want to see it all the time now and probably not eat and then maybe I’ll have to go somewhere to get better and they’ll bring The Grail Project out to cheer me up but it’ll be a disaster because the whole cycle will just start over again.
But that’s okay.
It would be worth it.

GO.

What I didn't like

Please.

My overall impression

SHOW #6:
An unfair display of skill, imagination, and theatrical muscle.

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