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Carla Cantrelle's Looking Up
How many times have we learned the lesson, lived the lesson, ignored the lesson of love?
That lesson being, of course, that absolute, unflinching commitment is essential to success. No matter how many movies have fed this to us, we still find ourselves drawn in to one storyline after another that pretty much preaches that same line. Carla Cantrelle’s Looking Up, playing at Theater for the New City through March 2nd, follows this over trodden path with very little deviation. The show itself is visually entertaining, however, offering up impressive trapeze work by Cantrelle, the show’s playwright and leading lady. With just two people on stage for the duration of the show, the dialogue between Cantrelle’s Wendy and Bryant Mason’s Jack gets tiring quickly. Streams of metaphors about trust, nets, compassion, giving up, acceptance of one’s flaws, aging, and looking in the right direction, fill most of the monologues and conversations. And that omnipresent commitment lesson about love? This play doesn’t subtly nudge the audience with it. Rather, the lesson is awkwardly shoved forward repeatedly though the framework of Jack’s fears and frustrations and Wendy’s trapeze metaphors. If you can stand the tiring story line, however, Cantrelle’s trapeze work is captivating. My advice? Skip the show and head to The Zipper Factory on Sundays for Cantrelle’s trapeze shows with Above The Belt.
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