Reviews for Mouth Radio Performances

Review #2 of 2: LANDSCAPE MECHANICAL by Sarah Loucks, Mouth Radio

Review #2 of 2: LANDSCAPE MECHANICAL by Sarah Loucks, Mouth Radio

by David Glen Robinson
Published on March 12, 2018

LANDSCAPE MECHANICAL, gone in a flash, presented a car lot’s worth of stories of those whose careers have pitched them into the very shoals and reefs and backwaters of life. It's another extremely well-written story with tender heart and clever imagination.

  Sarah Loucks and Mouthradio have just presented Landscape Mechanical, a worthy successor to 2017’s Crave Blue. This production is outdoors, not in some magnificent setting, but in a gravel parking lot amid old warehouses. The setting is apt because Landscape Mechanical presents a car lot’s worth of stories of those whose careers have pitched them into such settings, the very shoals and reefs and backwaters of life. Loucks’ writing and the skilled performers’ offer of empathic connection …

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Review #1 of 2: LANDSCAPE MECHANICAL by Sarah Louks, Mouth Radio

Review #1 of 2: LANDSCAPE MECHANICAL by Sarah Louks, Mouth Radio

by Justin M. West
Published on March 12, 2018

This show has courage to take risks, and it trusts us as an audience to follow where we’re led, often inward. We’re left wanting more.

Author’s Note: This review contains spoilers. Since this is an original work, I would highly encourage you to avoid reading this review until after you see the show. I understand this might defeat the purpose of reading it, entirely, but I believe the element of surprise is worth more than my blathering, at least in this case. If your heart simply aches for a review beforehand, I would just say – go see this show! …

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Review: Crave Blue by Mouth Radio

Review: Crave Blue by Mouth Radio

by David Glen Robinson
Published on July 22, 2017

The actors are the strength of CRAVE BLUE. They project the script’s high points right through the high concrete block walls, and not just by using volume. And would someone please give Tim Mateer a one-person show?

  The Mastrogeorge Theatre is incredibly hard to find, but finding it conveys a sense of accomplishment. The place is one of those multispaces in a repurposed warehouse near the corner of Pedernales and Cesar Chaves streets.Small space, high rent, and this phrase describes unfortunately one of the few survival strategies left to the east Austin theatre community.   But Heaven bless the few and the new. Crave Blue, a new play by Sarah Loucks of Mouth Radio …

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