Reviews for Twin Alchemy Collective Performances
Review: The Homes We Build by Twin Alchemy Collective
by Justin M. West
Published on September 17, 2019
As with all of Twin Alchemy’s works, Homes challenges its participants to leave their comfort zones but does so on a foundation of trust. The stories become easier to tell. A common language of inside jokes develops.
(. . . a fiction created by Twin Alchemy. . .) “I want to get out of the house more,” I told her, trying in vain to move my arms. “I’m feeling claustrophobic. Cabin fever...” Lauren smiled, nodding gently. “We will,” she said, touching my arm in that soft way …
Review: The Shift by Twin Alchemy Collective
by David Glen Robinson
Published on October 12, 2016
Twin Alchemy Collective’s parody of self-help seminars is thoroughly enjoyable. If they knew their approach also had social and personal therapeutic value, they might triple their ticket prices. So let's keep this quiet, shall we?
The Shift is a wry para-theatrical parody with a good heart. The latest offering from Katie Green’s Twin Alchemy Collective colors outside the lines bigtime as we’ve come to expect, and it is billed as a devised work. Interior scripts and conceptual texts serve nonetheless as guides for the actors and producers in building this performance event. The result is a highly original, ridiculously funny, and multilevel commentary on the inspirational seminar industry. The …
Review: Great Gold Bird, Great Dark Yawn, a wanderplay by Twin Alchemy Collective
by David Glen Robinson
Published on May 20, 2015
What are the visions of millenials in art? A short, incomplete list from Katie Green for Twin Alchemy list may include the poetry of T.S. Eliot, the poetry of Wallace Stevens, the life of Nicola Tesla, horses, the Land of the Midnight Sun, the aurora borealis, and conspiracy theories.
Twin Alchemy Collective’s Great Gold Bird, Great Dark Yawn, playing now, is a mixed digital combination of internet web pages, cell telephony, web video and a round of advanced digitally clued geo-caching. These media support content of visual art, music, voice theatrical work, and complex sound collages. The presentation is a montage of these artistic forms. It is all quite beautiful and well in keeping with Twin Alchemy’s abhorrence of conventionality and strong commitment to …
Second Review: The Society for Hard Determinists by Twin Alchemy Collective
by David Glen Robinson
Published on October 27, 2014
People have different opinions about audience participation, so be aware that this show is 100 percent audience participation. On the other hand, those who prefer to receive their theatre insights sitting comfortably in their seats may be pleasantly surprised at what they can enjoy as the performing guests of honor in this innovative show. The audience donned hooded robes and plain white masks, and then they were led by the hand through the ritual. With …
Review: The Society for Hard Determinists by Twin Alchemy Collective
by Michael Meigs
Published on October 24, 2014
Trust. Trust is essential. Trust is fundamental to theatre art. We the audience come to the appointed place and time, trusting the actors with our attention and our time; company and audience understand the unwritten rules of the playing space. We depart trusting one another on a journey of defined duration, even consenting to turn off our cell phones and other noise-making devices so that, like airline passengers, we're locked away in a shared reality …
Review: Little Mother by Twin Alchemy Collective
by Michael Meigs
Published on April 02, 2014
Katie Green's gently melancholy creation is a surprise, less an entertainment or a didactic presentation on injustice and exploitation than a quiet contemplation of desperation. There is a story, and it's simple and desperately sad, but Green and her Twin Alchemy Collective apply techniques to engage our emotions and our minds. The distancing effect somewhat resembles Brecht's use of alienation, the deliberate interruption of narrative in order to engage the moral sentiments of the audience. …