Keeping Trey Graham Awake

Did I mention last week that Trey Graham at The Washington City Paper liked 1001 a great deal as well?

Well if I didn't here goes:

Local companies not caring much about a critic’s sleep schedule, or his overtaxed vocabulary, the week’s theatergoing schedule served up another riot of excess. Truth be told, though, it’s a pretty damn entertaining batch of excess.

The most intellectually ambitious of this lot is probably 1001, Jason Grote’s dreamy, nested-narratives rethink of the Scheherazade fable, which weaves a strain of modern existential angst into the fabric of those ancient tales. Things get underway in King Shahriar’s Persia, as usual, but once the storyteller lady (a briskly assertive Yasmin Tuazon) starts spinning her endless yarns, several of them turn out to be set in climes even more exotic than Ali Baba’s cave, an island called Man Hat being one of them.

Read the rest HERE.

"Aha!" He Said Knowingly

This comment was left sometime last evening:

damiansinc said...
Hee...hee...strange coincidence indeed...very strange.
You may remember I commented on the similarity between the above sketch from the Capital Fringe Festival Guide and Theater-Boy himself, Trey Graham, last week. Well Damian seems to have, for the sake of this post, confirmed my suspisions.

Aha! I say with my finger raised in the air in the classic Aha! mode.

Now I want to know who the rest of these folks are. I know commenting has slowed to a trickle these days and I have bigger fish to fry, like reminding you that we still need you to come and see birds. But my curriosity is piqued and I hate having anything piqued.

So let us try and figure out who the rest of these folks are. We start with this delightful three quarter portrait of either a woman or a very pretty man. Any thoughts?

Remember birds runs this weekend and then it is gone. We have four shows left: Thursday at 8pm, Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 8pm (there is no show at 3pm on Saturday it was cancelled due to the church having some sort of religious event) and then the final matinee on Sunday at 3pm. Get your tickets now. Last weekends always have a rush of people trying to see the show before it closes and I don't want you to be caught unawares.