How To Be An Ending

Solo Show · theater gum · Ages 16+ · United States of America

one person show
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Review by TONY BARTOLONE

June 16, 2023 certified reviewer

What I liked

I found myself moved to tears by the end. A beautifully abstract exploration of what it means to alive. Elena Rosa performs colorful voices expressing loss, love and the fragility of earthly existence. It is perhaps impossible to ponder our relationship with mortality without also thinking about our relationships with each other. Rosa’s show is painfully human, it affects you in the way only good art can. It feels as though there’s a crack in the world and we are all holding on. Within every death is the apocalypse. Even when ignored. It communicates some unspeakable pining, some inarticulable feeling, some unbearable scream. Go see it.

What I didn't like

Nothing. Just go see it.

My overall impression

A humanistic collection of character monologues with unifying themes.

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