Soulocentric Festival
Vertigo Studio Theatre
Runs Until October 8
If the term "culture vulture" applies to you then tonight’s the night to check out what’s happening at this year’s Soulocentric Festival.
In fact that’s the descriptor Artistic Director Jenny Repond Peters uses to describe tonight’s two mainstage offerings one at 8:00 PM and the other at 9:30 PM.
The earlier show will feature three dance theatre productions. The first Meatballs explores "needing something but not wanting it" told through a series of movements.
Laurel Cleall’s Inside Out explores her experiences with colitis and the physical and emotional toll the disese took upon her body.
Diffused Light wraps the earlier mainstage show. Three emerging choreographers will each present a dance/theatre solo all using the same lighting and set design to tell her own story.
The second mainstage show tonight starts at 9:30. It will feature a physically based re-imagining of that famous Robert Service poem The Cremation of Sam McGee. Theatre Encounter’s Baader Meinhof Collective first produced the piece – which Repond Peters describes as "challenging" – in early August. If you missed it then now’s your chance to see it.
The evening closes with Jason Seelman’s Pick Your Food Up Off the Floor and Eat It! Despite bearing a title that sounds like a mother’s reprimand to a child the show is actually about a convicted killer who comes before a psychiatric panel to tell his story and speak about his crime. As the show’s promotional literature says "It is up to you to see a man troubled or a psychotic killer."
