July 8, 2021
Regina Aquino stars in the one-woman show We re Gonna Die at Round House Theatre. (Photo: Paige Hernandez)
Round House Theatre which has produced numerous virtual plays during the pandemic cautiously invited a limited, masked and socially distanced audience back into the building for its production of “We’re Gonna Die” and filmed it for digital streaming audiences. The theater plans to open its doors to everyone for in-person viewing come fall.
The play is a mixed bag of complicated emotions about hope in the face of despair.
Although it has clearly good intentions, the choice to produce “We’re Gonna Die” as the U.S. tries to recover from COVID-19 might seem a bit tone deaf to the families and loved ones of the more than 600,000 people in the United States who did die during the pandemic.
Round House presents cathartic, punk-informed, one-woman musical We re Gonna Die
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In the most trying of times, the Round House Theatre has managed to put together a pretty remarkable season, entirely online but leaning on one-person showcases that eliminated the need of distancing among cast members.
They perform on fully dressed theater sets (instead of a Zoom window), before a minuscule audience, either to bolster the actor or provide laughs in the spaces needed.
As with previous offerings this season, the streamed presentation of Lucy Alibar s Throw Me on the Burnpile and Light Me Up begins with the few audience members, in masks and face shields (and sometimes masks
and face shields) entering the lobby and getting their tickets torn. Just 10 people were allowed to see Beth Hylton s performance live for the two performances filmed last month.