Director John Lennox is known for his fight choreography, and this was a good opportunity to see (and hear) this challenging art form up close and personal. The 14-member cast cussed and boasted and beat each other up in a wide variety of configurations, making good use of the gym-mat-lined downstage, lighting up the “pow” “wham” comic-book-style signs, in front of an artistic set of projections (Boris Nikolovski is listed as “graphic design”.)
The show explored super-heroics, callings, tests and missions, identity/human flaws and weirdness - sometimes pretentious, sometimes funny, sometimes ridiculous. I’m not sure if it’s meant to be a spoof or an homage. We have to admit to being somewhat averse to this superhero/gamer/violence genre. We were also not big fans of Qui’s other popular scriptShe Kills Monsters, that was a hit at Ixion. (Old-people-stuff; we can’t deny it.)
Tune in next week for another LCC quickie; I think the “destruction” will be less acrobatic in this one:
Mutually Assured Destruction: 10 Plays About Brothers and Sisters
By Don Zolidis. directed by Mary Matzke
8 p.m. Friday, May 4, 2018
8 p.m. Saturday, May 5, 2018
LCC Black Box Theatre, Room 1422 Gannon Building, 411 N. Grand Avenue, Lansing 48933