“Downstate”
Until February 16th
Studio theater
1501 14th St., NW
$ 50- $ 102
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Crime and punishment are for discussions in the studio theater. Bruce Norris’s challenging work “Downstate” explores the situation of people who spend time, but seem to be unable to escape from the pollution of misconduct.
The “Downstate” set in a tidy and unwanted group house somewhere south of the Chicago metropolitan area provides four different houseomates with one common point. All of them are registered sex offenders.
Here, men live. They are forbidden to wear ankle monitor, buy food and catch the bus. In addition, there is a serious harassment from a strong neighbor who knows the past.
First, I introduced Fred (Dandley), a former piano instructor. Snow hair residents using mobility scooters and using pepper sentences in “Gorisie” and “Gauche” did not seem more harmless. But Fred has a past.
And today, there are guests in Fred. Andy (Tim Getman), a fairly polite financial planner, his wife, Mem (Emily Kester), is a ZEN yoga instructor, especially when he traveled from Chicago.
Not a social call. Andy has a well -thinking strategy about how to calmly confront him on a man who gave him a sexual assault on a piano bench when he was 12 years old. Since that day, Andy’s life has been suffering from anxiety and depression. He wants some closing in the past.
The interruption continues. A nearby hotel has a phone call from a couple’s son waiting for a promised trip to Water Park. At home, other residents may be lined up to use one of the modest houses. Immediately, Fred’s visitors will be completely dissatisfied.
The denial is soaked in the story of each prisoner. GIO (JAYSEN WRIGHT) is an angry man who quotes, exercises the Bible, and relies on the shrunk Eddie Huskel Manners. GIO has spent time with a legal rape with a minor woman, so I feel he hasn’t deviated from his house mate Fred. He has withdrawn Felix (Richard Lewis Henry), who has sexually assaulted his very young girl. Then, at the age of 37, a 14 -year -old boy was sexually assaulted, and after working in a prison for 15 years, Diana Ross Adoles, a 14 -year -old boy, and a comfortable quia dee (Stephen Conrad (Stephen Conrad)・ Moore continues to explain their connection as a loving relationship.
Eventually, Andy returns without his wife and interacts with Fred. Emotions get hot. (Here, the choreographer Rob Hunter’s know -how is completely on display.)
Norris, a playwright, won the Puritzer’s Awards (2011) in the drama, including the “Cryborn Park”, and both the residents and other characters, including the visiting care observer, Ivy (Kerokurakwell). I dig deeper into reinstatement ven, guilt and mercy. Occasionally shows the flash of sympathy and the indomitable toughness with Staples Geo’s lively colleague Effy (Irene Hamiriton).
The “downstate” moves quickly and is not boring. Dialogue is true, and Norris is a changing tone master.
The design team, which is the awkward guided by the director David Muse, has created a place that is best for this difficult story to develop. The set designer Alexander Woodword offers a house with little invisible bedroom, a common area of the date panel, and a small galley kitchen. There are necessary details, such as busy group bulletin boards, Gio’s weIGHT BENCH, Fred’s Keyboard, terribly broken front window, eerie baseball bats leaning near the front entrance.
The space is persuasive by illuminating the designer’s stacy delerothy, various mood, atmosphere, and the most memorable, early morning light from the outside world.
In the director’s memo, the muse wrote, “I hope this is like you are with you after you leave.” With this, he certainly succeeds.
The post of “Downstate” leads to the Light humiliation of the first four registered sex offenders who first appeared in the Washington Blade: LGBTQ News, Politics, LGBTQ rights, gay News.
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