Reviews for DA! Theatre Collective Performances
Review: DayBoyNightGirl by DA! Theatre Collective
by David Glen Robinson
Published on June 11, 2012
Kirk German is a gifted playwright; the language never lapses into mere functional storytelling, but at times the words in the mouths of the actors seem to vault into iambic hexameter, giving an Elizabethan lilt to many of the text passages. The thing sparkles.
I walked two blocks to reach the Long Center, with its blackbox Rollins Studio Theatre, where DayBoyNightGirl played. Without a doubt, the spectacular 21st century cityscape of downtown Austin upstages every performance staged there. After all, the downtown view is the first thing one sees upon arriving at the Long Center. DayBoyNightGirl pushed back admirably against the sensory overload. The show was spectacular at every level. If you’re tired of small plays in small theatres, I offer you my …
Review: Leave It to Beverly by DA! Theatre Collective
by Michael Meigs
Published on November 11, 2009
Eventually the girls discover great big tins resembling 2-gallon Campbell's soup containers, labeled "HA.HA.HA." Within them is a gelatinous colored substance that has got to be the canned laughter that permeates their existence.
Kirk German's Leave It to Beverly is a rib-tickler. His characters and cast go sailing off into TV Land of the 1950s and 1960s, taking the gags and the mannerisms way up over the top. DA! applies its energetic young 21st-century humor to Mom and Pop's naive entertainments and comes away a winner. Consider, for example, canned laughter. The early days of television featured many programs filmed before live audiences, but with rising costs and the introduction …
Review: Heron and Crane by DA! Theatre Collective
by Michael Meigs
Published on January 04, 2009
Anyone with an ounce of wonder left in his or her spirit would be pleased to make the acquaintance of such engaging characters as these.
New Year's Eve day, 2008. The sun had gone lower in the sky, sending broad yellow shafts of light across dusty Zilker Park under the First Street bridge. When we came back in half an hour to the HBMG venue, the DA! Theatre Collective was setting up for their touring children’s show, Heron & Crane. At the 4:30 showtime there was almost no audience. The DA! players had set up on the road. Almost without …
Review: Relative Space by DA! Theatre Collective
by Michael Meigs
Published on December 13, 2008
There’s lots of back and forth among members of the company, all of whom get serenely happy grins and enjoy banter both verbal and physical among them
Like an extra gift crammed down into the toe of your Christmas stocking, Relative Space is deftly tucked into the off-hours at Hyde Park Theatre on 43rd street. It’s rare that you can get to enjoy theatre or dance on a Sunday-to-Wednesday cycle, unless some touring company cruises through town in that usually “dark” period. This short frolic rolls at 5 p.m. on Sunday and 8 p.m. each following evening, time-sharing the playing space with Xmas Unwrapped, A Burlesque …