Rhino in Winter
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Festival offerings are listed on a week-by-week basis (audiences are advised to call the festival for updates); following is the schedule for March 5 through 12.
THURSDAY, MARCH 5
Amanda Clower’s one-woman show finds a late-night refrigeraider examining her relationships with her mother and grandmother. Jenny Magnus directs for Flying Girl. “[S]ometimes Clower gets stuck in her metaphors. . . . Mostly, however, this 40-minute late-night show works; Clower’s sleep-talking rings true, and her shocks of recognition make [her character’s] obsessions wakingly real,” said Reader critic Lawrence Bommer when he reviewed the piece’s original run. 8 PM.
The Curious Theatre Branch presents Jenny Magnus and Amy Warren in Magnus’s new play about “drunkenness and dreams, mimetics and idea infection, and innocence and experience.” The play “epitomizes the kind of intelligent, demanding, mind-overhauling work the Rhino fests are famous for. Still struggling to emerge from the weight of overwriting, this is a play with a problem Magnus seems to have identified already: as the piece progresses, she strips it down to an essence, delivering a sobering punch,” says Reader critic Justin Hayford. 8 PM.
These two plays, by Salem Collo-Julin
The Strange
