First, reach out to performers at Keegan Theatre Hands to God Spend a large portion of Robert Askins’s raucous comedy with his fist and firmly insert another performer from the cast.
It’s not really strange. It’s a puppet show, exquisitely pulled apart by Josh Sticklyn’s cocky Broadway hit staging, and Drew Sharp portraying Tyrone, a doll of country Texas teen Jason and Jason’s emotional support. He is led.
Jason and Tyrone may be the same person, but they don’t have the same mind. One is a shy, kindly spoken child, and his felt friend is sock, a crude dull truth man, sock, a shady, dull truth man. Part of Jason’s mental division, or supernatural inclination, released his side of himself that no one had ever seen, and he had no idea that he was present.
Through competent ventriloquism, Sharp brings life clearly to both characters joke and argue with each other, maintaining the mystery of whether we are witnessing madness or not. His dual performances are engulfed in a serious story of what is actually going on in Jason, one of which is shockingly funny at times.
The boy’s dad passed away earlier this year, and he barely deals with it in a group of young people in the church designed to give children an exit through puppet shows. The problem with Puppet Tyrone is that after Jason loosens up the character he created, it is not clear that he can control his clone.
His devout Christian mom, Margaree (Shadia Hafiz), actually leads a group of young people, and becomes convinced that the devil has reached Jason, or Tyrone. Can I own a doll?
Hafiz hits all the high-key notes of this exciting mom and widow with a fierce hit. He has little to deal with, and has so many Whackadoo developments where the family demon keeps dolls that may be the least of her problems.
Among these issues, she was not caused by herself. Although Gray appears silent about committing to the eerieness surrounding the pastor’s boundaries, Hafiz supplies both with ample fire.
She makes Margaree’s monumental emotional breakdown in the pastor’s office one of the play’s non-puppet-related highlights, and the temptation of women’s extremely inappropriate and rough sex, Timmy Timmy (Jordan Brown) ) seduces.
Brown’s Southern accents are rough, but his Timmy captures the aggressively horny teenage spirit that is so enthusiastically fascinated. “This is not the way I drew it,” he cried.
The joy of the audience is that almost everyone in this church is always wrong. And while tackling taboos with teens may be tricky, doing it with a doll is a dark thing about what the play is going on in the basement of some churches, not just puppet sex It’s definitely stupid so that you can secretly explore the sides. However, there is doll sex, but you’ll be warned.
In fact, even the harmless man of Sweet Jessica (Hanna Taylor), a girl from the Tyron Group, and Sweet Jessica (Hanna Taylor), a love interest in Jason, will not survive unharmed. Tyrone tells us at the top of the show that humanity’s struggle in the gap between good and evil is eternal.
The opening monologue, attached to Jason, cleverly sets the puppets as organizations from the start, so that somehow they can freely speak their minds. Sharpe’s excellent puppet control is just one aspect of the controlled approach of production to present these chaotic lives.
Spinning on the turntable stage between scenes and locations, the play is in step with these messy Texans, always returning home in the healthy church basement of set designer Matthew J. Keenan. With bean bag chairs and a pleasant slogan like “light for everyone” posted around the room, plus stuffed animals lined up on the shelf, waiting to see.
Hand to God (★★★★☆) Runs at Keegan Theater in 1742 Church St. NW until March 2nd. Tickets are $54 and there is a discount option. Visit www.keegantheatre.com.
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