Rasika Mathur
IKIGAI - a purpose for living - / Hybrid Show
rasika mathur
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September 13, 2021
certified reviewer
In a quick wiki search, “common features of the [Butoh] art form include playful and grotesque imagery, taboo topics, extreme or absurd environments … traditionally performed in white body makeup with slow hyper-controlled motion.”
The facial contortions performed must have been so much fun to rehearse. Nobody’s getting a double chin in this cast! When joy radiates out of the mouth, eyes and chest, we can see it! Even in non-Butoh life! And pain? I concluded that pain mostly lives in the betra...
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POCKETS
rasika mathur
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June 26, 2019
certified reviewer
If I’m singing these tunes on the way to my car afterwards, I’m thinking this is the kind of musical that I would have loved to walk out of the theater holding the SOUNDTRACK ON COMPACT DISC. CD’S! Remember those, people? I did that with Rent and I would do that with Pockets. ...
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Butcher Holler Here We Come!
rasika mathur
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June 23, 2019
certified reviewer
Short of actual soot in my lungs, this one gave me all the feels! ...
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The Flower Society
rasika mathur
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June 23, 2019
certified reviewer
Didn’t want to leave the theater after this one ended. Found it hard to get up, given the weight of what I’d just seen. When a play does this to me, it did something right....
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Jamba Juice: The Musical
rasika mathur
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June 20, 2019
certified reviewer
Jamba Juice the Musical. Why WOULDN’T you?...
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Tattered Capes
rasika mathur
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June 10, 2019
certified reviewer
Every single or married woman needs to see this. Everyone who wants to fit in needs to see this. Everyone who loves sneering shadowy bad guys needs to see this. Everyone who loves the action, SFX and special fx of the 60’s style Batman series needs to see this....
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She Kills Monsters
rasika mathur
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June 09, 2019
certified reviewer
Excellent play that takes full advantage of the Arena space. Great cast that love playing with each other. You don’t even have to understand D&D to get the jokes! Fight choreography!!!! Steeeeeve!...
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Livin' the Dream (a journalistic journey)
rasika mathur
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June 08, 2019
certified reviewer
Come see the road Bob has travelled and why he truly is a Hollywood Fringe Festival Treasure....
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blackboxing
rasika mathur
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June 06, 2019
certified reviewer
MY FACE HURTS. Make it stop. This show made my cheeks hurt from smiling and laughing. I said STOP....
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The Goddesses Guide: Adura for the Women of African Diaspora
rasika mathur
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June 22, 2018
certified reviewer
I absolutely cannot say enough about this play: it is a visually stunning, poetically written, beautifully acted, contagiously choreographed, audible treat....
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