Adam Magazine on the Crazy Years

Looting, killing and raping -- by twisting their words they call it "empire"; and wherever they have created a wilderness they call it "peace" -- Tacitus

Monday, March 25

From a review of No Exit

The intimate playing space at the DCAC is put to good use with four strips of white cloth, three garishly colored, uncomfortably angular "divans" (and Merkle's character "hates angles") and an alter/mantle all credited simply to the production company rather than to a designer. Adam Magazine is credited for a very effective lighting design which captures the sameness of the eternal room. Early in the play the characters gaze off into the distance to view life as it goes on back on earth (a phenomenon which can only last as long as people there remember the departed.) Later they are presented with an opportunity to escape to an unknown fate. But the trio rejects this option in favor of their known hell. Magazine?s lighting design and the original music composed by Jesse Terrill subtly underscore those events without distraction.

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