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<p class=""><b style><span style="font-family:Palatino"><br></span></b></p><p class=""><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><b style><span style="font-family:Palatino"></span></b></span></p><p class="">
<span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><b style><span style="font-family:Palatino"><br></span></b></span></p><p class=""><b style><span style="font-family:Palatino">NICK & JEREMY, more devised theatre at
Cleveland Public Theatre; CARMINA BURANA, CPTs DANCE WORKS</span></b></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Palatino"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Palatino">Roy Berko</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Palatino">(Member, American Theatre
Critics Association & Cleveland Critics Circle)</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Palatino"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Palatino">What happens when two
friends, Nick Riley, a drummer and performer, and Jeremy Paul, a director and
actor, meet over a number of months to talk stuff?<span style> </span>Of course, they create a devised theatre piece, combining
interactions, vinyl, drumming and audience interplay, and name the proceedings
NICK & JEREMY.<span style> </span>Then, they make
arrangements to have it staged at Cleveland Public Theatre, the home of
theatrical invention and innovation.</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Palatino"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Palatino">This is not your
traditional theatrical production.<span style>
</span>This world premiere staging is in the Storefront Studio theatre, a black
box space, with a thrust stage, that used to house a bookstore.<span style> </span></span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Palatino"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Palatino">When you enter, you are
greeted by the actors who engage you in conversations based on questions they
ask you and you ask them.<span style> </span></span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Palatino"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Palatino">Finally, when they are in
the right mood, the duo sits down at a small table, have some coffee, and
proceed to talk, occasionally getting up and putting various records on an old
fashioned turntable, play the drums, go to a podium, do some shtick, and return
to the table for some more talk.</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Palatino"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Palatino">The subjects they discuss
range from whether one should wear a hat in the theatre, to whether the red dot
on the floor under the table is supposed to be Mars, to foundational
psychology, the operation of the brain, the sense of self, enlightenism, the
consciousness of reality, drugs, dreams, magic, demons, the disappearance of
the universe with only this room and the people in it remaining, whether the
I is really the Me, writing a letter to oneself as a youth at age 80,
suspended disbelief, situational intentionalism, commitment, and whether, in fact,
everything that the audience is hearing is really only taking place in their
individual heads.<span style> </span>The vignettes
finally come to a halt when the audience is taken on a personal guided imagery.<span style> </span>Well, at least that is where it should
have ended.<span style> </span>The tacked on
after-the fact ending added little.</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Palatino"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Palatino">Sound obtuse, too
intellectual?<span style> </span>That depends on the
listener.<span style> </span>If you hang around
coffee shops and play mind games, or you participated in all nighters in
college based on what was discussed, or should have been discussed, in
philosophy class, or you are addicted to probing for the beyond, youll feel
right at home.<span style> </span>Youll really want
to walk onto the stage, which is no more than five feet away from anyone in the
theatre, and take part.<span style> </span></span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Palatino"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Palatino">In fact, lots of people
swarmed around the actors after the performance to continue the dialogue.<span style> </span>Others walked out, got in their cars,
and pondered the meaning of life as they drove home with their heads full of
random thoughts, asking, What in Hades did I just see and hear?</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Palatino"><span style> </span></span></p>
<p class=""><i style><span style="font-family:Palatino;color:black">Capsule judgement: NICK AND JEREMY is
an electric kool-aid acid trip, minus the drugs, which would make Timothy
Leary, the proponent of the use of psychedelic substances and believer in tune
on, tune in, drop out, very happy.<span style>
</span>It should be of great interest to deep or pseudo-deep thinkers. </span></i></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Palatino"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Palatino">NICK & JEREMY runs
from March 29-April 13, 2013 at Cleveland Public Theatre.<span style> </span>For tickets call 216-631-2727 or go on
line to <a href="http://www.cptonline.org"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">www.cptonline.org</span></a>.</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Palatino"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Palatino">COMING UP:</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Palatino"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Palatino">The Cleveland Orchestra,
Chorus and Childrens Chorus present <b style>CARMINA
BURANA</b> on April 11, 12 and 13 (8 p.m.) and 14 (2 p.m.) at Severance
Hall.<span style> </span>For tickets call
216-231-1111 or go on line to <a href="clevelandorchestra.com"><span style="color:windowtext">clevelandorchestra.com</span></a></span></p><p class=""><br><span style="font-family:Palatino"><a href="clevelandorchestra.com"><span style="color:windowtext"></span></a></span></p>
<p class="">DANCE WORKS '13, March 21-April 20, features five weeks of performances at CPT by local dance companies. For information and tickets go to 216-631-2727 or go to <a href="http://www.cptonline.org">www.cptonline.org</a></p>
<p class=""><br></p><p class=""><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"></span></p><p class=""><br></p><p class=""><br></p><p class=""><span style="font-family:Palatino"><a href="clevelandorchestra.com"><span style="color:windowtext"></span></a></span></p>
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