Renaissance Theaterworks offers three works by playwrights of color. It’s an adventure.
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Dominique Paul Noth - Dec 11th, 2020 08:45 am
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Belonging. Photo from Renaissance Theaterworks.
At this moment in pandemic time, theater companies generally try to lure you back through an online production based on holiday themes. Renaissance Theaterworks in Milwaukee is trying something else.
It has taken three short plays (about an hour for all) reflecting acclaimed Black and brown playwrights slapping their surreal musings right up against natural acting situations, stretching our imagination the way a work for the stage should.
Having worked with Outer Loop Theater Experience to manhandle the technicalities, and Broadway on Demand as its host, Renaissance is taking a chance with cerebral and emotional daring, the sort progressive live theater aims at. But online we are a bit more remote and observe somewhat coldly on the action. We shouldn’t spend any time worrying about the actors’ space problems.