What I liked
This piece made me laugh continuously, and I knew I was watching something that took a lot of artistic and emotional processing to realize. This is my favorite kind of work.
Blount is beautiful to watch as well – nimble, light, clown-eyed, generous.
I can’t say enough about this piece.
What I didn't like
n/a
My overall impression
Blount uses simple staging and layered sound design to take us into multiple places in time, emotion, and in psyche. He introduces us to a bashful, young, and inwardly tormented pastor doing his best to deliver a perfect sermon. And then we meet just some of the people of in his head and the people he might like to be if he weren’t trying to be perfect.
The switches in persona and the raising of stakes seem designed to stir up the audience’s own personal discomforts. Or, to put it another way, Blount was unafraid to pull from the bottom of the spine. Like a true clown, he ate all the feelings he elicited in the climax of this piece.
