Lily, Stillpoint Theater Collective, at the Lunar Cabaret, and Evening at Club Means, at the Lunar Cabaret. Playwright-performer Karine Koret interviewed her grandmother Edna about her experiences during the Holocaust in order to create Lily, a one-woman show. Koret notes in the program that she had to let her grandmother tell the story her own way, but the result is a dramatic, sometimes funny piece distinguished by the naturalness of the storytelling.
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Affixing vignette titles to a clothesline slows down the production, staged by Kerstin Broockmann. And Kulke forgetting lines on opening night didn’t help the pace. Her hostess has potential, but Cleo and the handful of other characters Kulke portrays (with the exception of a boisterous “Bert Brecht”) aren’t fleshed out. Even Cleo’s silently expressive guitar-playing sidekick Karl (Ben Benedict) upstages her. –Jenn Goddu
