Reviews for Philip Kreyche Performances
Review: Boudikka, the Warrior Queen by Philip Kreyche
by Brian Paul Scipione
Published on August 07, 2011
This play has clear-cut heroes, victims, and villains but, unfortunately, not much depth, giving it an air of pantomime.
The story of Boudikka, a Celtic Queen who leads an uprising against the colonial Roman Empire, might be summed up by a Hollywood exec like so: “It’s like Braveheart but with a woman!” Roman historian Tacitus preserved the history of Boudikka, commonly spelled Boudicca, and Cassius Dio later expanded on it. Boudikka was accounted to be a fair and wise ruler who essentially followed her deceased husband's philosophy that it was best to play ball with …
Review: Siyavash by Philip Kreyche, Wit's End Theatre Project
by Michael Meigs
Published on October 26, 2010
Playwright-manager-director-actor Kreyche fashioned a script in vigorous blank verse and took the central role of Siyâvash. Combining all those responsibilities for a staging is rare these days and somewhat risky, but the declamatory form provided a reassuring framework.
That Philip Kreyche is a dab hand at theatre, a young man with imagination and a taste for the exotic. His earlier piece Love Me was an expressionist treatment of incidents in the life of the Austrian expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka. He staged it first at a summer workshop at Austin Community College and then brought it back for FronteraFest. I hadn't heard of Kokoschka. Kreyche's piece prompted me to do some research -- which means, these days, …
Review: Love Me
by Michael Meigs
Published on January 25, 2010
This is a courageous dish to set before an Austin audience. To some it might seem suspiciously erudite and obscure. Others will scoff at the emotion and vulnerability that constitute the principal elements of the action.
The title of Philip Kreyche's Love Me is deceptively simple. As playwright and principal actor he takes on German expressionism, focusing on the Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka in the period 1918-1919, when the painter was known among his circle of bohemians in Dresden simply as "mad Kokoschka."Renowned as an artist of dark and powerful brushwork and a writer of equally dark, sex-obsessed essays and narratives, in 1912 Kokoshka became involved with Alma Mahler, whose husband had just …