I love you' or 'I lust you'? What's the difference? A young, black woman tries to find out. Experience the beauty and horror of love and dating in this one-woman show that features spoken-word poetry and storytelling. 70 minutes
So Do You Love Me Yet?
Farah Lawal
FarahLawal.com
Venue: The Bedroom - at Fort Fringe
Ticket sales for 2009 Capital Fringe Festival closed.
- Jul 10th 8 pm
- Jul 12th 7 pm
- Jul 16th 6:30 pm
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- Jul 25th 6:30 pm
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maximumverbosityonline on 2009-07-15 said... Now here’s a performer who knows how to work her audience – she’s confident, sexy, knows it and uses it. As for the content – as nearly as I can tell, the script is little more than a series of thematically-connected poems that have been stapled together. There are some lovely pieces, and some pretty awesome turns of phrase (“my black-coffee self switched to decaf”), but what’s really impressive about this script is their arrangement – laid out as they are, the show ends up taking on the quality of an expressionistic, stream-of-consciousness monologue, detailing the thousands of contradictions surrounding romantic love. It’s the ability to make such dramatic leaps from one conflicting thought to another that makes this so compelling. It skates towards being maudlin at times (there’s a scene where she talks to a teddy bear), but she consistently pulls it back with the intensity of her performance. She also chose to end on a somewhat syrupy note (“love is you plus me plus hope”) that I personally found off-putting after the thoughtfulness of what preceded it. But hey – the fact that I can still clearly recall so many lines from the show nearly a week after seeing it is an indication of how well-composed this thing is. I saw five shows this weekend, and this one was the clear standout. more reviews available at wombwithaview.wordpress.com
