Reviews for Capital T Theatre Performances
Review: Bug by Capital T Theatre
by Michael Meigs
Published on June 23, 2010
Kate Debuys again shows herself as an intelligent, perceptive and fearless actress. She and the contained, fierce Joey Hood court and interact throughout this piece, building to a mutually reinforcing frenzy.
Tracy Letts is hard to take. Any playwright is something of a god, sitting before that first blank page with the power to create and mold character and situation. Letts gives us the polarization of that Genesis -- evidently fascinated by the dark and the desperate, he crafts characters beaten down by one another, trapped in poverty, deprived of education and understanding, aching for meaning. He endows them with life, vivid relations and back stories …
Review: Dying City by Capital T Theatre
by Michael Meigs
Published on January 27, 2010
The back-and-forth of tense familiarity between Kelly and her brother Peter at times suggests a psychological ambush, at times a genuine reunion, and at times a therapy session.
Emptiness echoes from our first moments with Dying City.Motionless on the sofa, Liz Fisher as Kelly sits listening vacantly to Stephen Colbert's bright, acerbic chatter. She fingers a book; shifts her position; pushes at the stack of papers on the coffee table. An open cardboard box on the floor suggests packing or at least some interrupted task of organization. The buzzer sounds. Someone is downstairs and wants to come up. Dying City is not about Iraq. It's …
Review: Killer Joe by Capital T Theatre
by Michael Meigs
Published on June 22, 2009
Brooding unhappily over this show for the past four days, I gradually came to the conclusion that playwright Tracy Letts has produced an exercise in degenerate art.
I knew that this one was going to scare us to death. I didn't get there early in the run but I saw that the reviews were popping up in the media and on line.My rule is not to read the reviews until after I've seen the production and written about it. My ticket was for last Thursday night.Thursdays are often down-time for Austin theatre, but this show was packing 'em in. There's no standing …
Review: The BIrd and the Bee by Capital T Theatre
by Michael Meigs
Published on January 27, 2009
Candlelight vigils, a dedicated website, Hannah's efforts to scoop some of that admiration and kumbaya feeling for herself . . . the focus is not on the dead boy but on his acquaintances' exploitation of his death.
Two worlds converge to dark uncertainty. These linked plays are completely different in style but taken together, they resonate and provide tremendous opportunity for gifted actors.Matt Hartley wrote The Bee with a satirical pen as broad as a paintbrush. High school sweetie Chloé (Tayler Gill, left, below) is devastated when her older brother Luke dies in a traffic accident. His dramatic end provides a point of excitement and assembly for the rest of his high school class, …