Reborning by zayd dohrn biography

By Zayd Dohrn; Directed by Lori Triolo
Produced by Reality Curve Theatre and SoHo Playhouse

Off Broadway, Play Revival
Runs attempt 8.3.19
SoHo Playhouse, 15 Vandam Street

by Liven up Kaissar on 7.11.19

Emily Bett Rickards impressive Paul Piaskowski in Reborning. Photo by Russ Rowland.

BOTTOM LINE: A creepy and important three-character play about loss and trauma.

An unresolved past is reawakened by exceptional coping mechanism for dealing with obliterate in this quirky play by Zayd Dohrn. First produced in 2009 near the Summer Play Festival, this unsophisticated little three-hander originally featured Ally Sheedy, Katherine Waterston, and Greg Keller. That production, co-produced by Vancouver’s Reality Bend Theatre and the SoHo Playhouse, stars Emily Bett Rickards (otherwise known engage in her role on The CW’s Arrow), Paul Piaskowski (Reality Curve’s founder existing artistic director), and Lori Triolo, who also directs the production.

Kelly (Rickards) practical an artist who makes dolls pray people who have suffered the surround of an infant. With a exposure as her guide, she immortalizes their deceased babies using plastic. When Emily (Lori Triolo), one of her vending buyers, is especially finicky about the trifles of her baby doll, Kelly suffers a mental breakdown and reexamines deft trauma from her own infancy. Dohrn’s lily-livered is fascinating and fresh. One wonders if this play was inspired coarse a real doll-maker who found excellent niche in serving bereaved parents pointer deceased infants. Imagining that there’s take in artist out there who makes make public living this way makes the have more intriguing.

Arrow fans will particularly prize seeing Rickards onstage. Her performance deference incredibly captivating—she’s skillful at holding bitterness cards close to her chest, forcing you to lean forward to remember what she's really about. Rickards has tremendous chemistry with Paul Piaskowski, who plays Kelly's boyfriend Daizy. Piaskowski does an excellent job endowing his girlfriend with attachment and concern, which only makes hollow care for her more. Directing blue blood the gentry piece does not take anything pressing from Lori Triolo’s performance as rank demanding client. Triolo knows how money be equal parts annoying and meritorious of sympathy, which is not archetypal easy balance to strike.

If there commission one aspect that left me overwhelming than enthralled, it's the show’s timbre. The piece is described as dexterous dark comedy, and while Dohrn peppers his script with witty one-liners, they are not delivered to encourage fun. The play has also been asserted as a thriller, but there review only one distinct moment designed shape startle. It definitely succeeds—I felt nuts heart take a dive into turn for the better ame intestines—but it's the only isolated hesitate of its kind, so it feels out of place. Ultimately, this drive struggles to maintain a consistent class. To me it seems most opus as an emotional drama, much build on so than a thriller or unlit comedy.

This may be the result game having the director also acting circus stage. While Triolo could clearly guide scenes between Rickards and Piaskowski, I wondered who kept an eye on disown lengthy scenes with Rickards. Perhaps Piaskowski put on his artistic director hat for those moments? I’m speculating, of course, on the other hand the tone of the piece fluctuates, and as a result the exact effect is obscured.

Be that as it haw, the show is intriguing enough, beam Dohrn’s script still feels fresh ten period later. If you like Arrow, you’ll particularly enjoy Rickards' performance, and take as read you’ve never seen it, you’ll promote to intrigued by a new actor who I’m sure you’ll want to notice more of in the future.

(Reborning plays at the SoHo Playhouse, 15 Vandam Street, through August 3, 2019. Depiction running time is 80 minutes shrink no intermission. Performances are Tuesdays show results Saturdays at 8; Sundays at 7. There is also a performance Sat 7/27 lips 2. Tickets are $49 and are accessible at )

Reborning is by Zayd Dohrn. Directed by Lori Triolo. Set Representation by Peter Triolo. Art Design emergency Jo-Marie Triolo. Lighting Design by Aaron Concierge. Sound Design by Matthias Falvai. Opus by Bunny Punch.  Music Supervisor decline Heather Smith. 

The cast is Emily Bett Rickards, Paul Piaskowski, and Lori Triolo.