cheers, Tobias.

Best of luck on future productions!!

And my play SLEEPER goes up in July and August at MTS…No lions, more nudity, and very different from your show…but I hope y’all will join us.

Best,
D

Friday I saw Babylon Babylon at the Brick. I was sucked into the World and the action from the first, as (Author, Director, Actor) Jeff Lewonczyk, as “Logios, a storyteller”, brought the audience into the world of Babylon, 539 B.C.E. specifically the Temple of Ishtar, on the eve of the Persian attack led by Cyrus, while the 30-person cast entered in opposite parallel directions to so embody the living rivers of the Tigris and Euphrates. I loved the show. It took me somewhere very specific and very alien and also very familiar, dreamlike almost. The cast was excellent, investing the reality with a wonderful and hermetically-sealed verisimilitude of action form and gesture. Hope Cartelli, Michael Criscuolo and Iracel Rivero, Fred Backus and Gyda Arber, Aaron Baker and Adam Swiderski, Ali Skye Bennet, Danny Bowes and Siobhan Doherty, Robert Pinnock and Roger Nasser, Marguerite French, and the afore-mentioned Jeff Lewonczyk particularly impressed. Lights wonderful and appropriate, Set great – simple and grand (The Lion of Babylon painting is a personal favourite…), and the music and dancing were hypnotic and lovely, Grand and Terrible. Jeff’s script is a delight, really. The scope, the simplicity, the parallels to people and places and things that we all know in our lives and world are there, as well as having the permission for “Babylonian-licence”, as it were, to justify things that we do not have in the everyday all make for an accessible, challengung (in a good way), and fun piece of writing. A treat of an evening.

What a surprise! The concept was cool; the writing was excellent; the music was haunting; the acting was uniformly good. Moreover, the end result was much greater than the sum of its parts. I was so impressed that it set me to thinking and even researching.

The look and movement of the piece was beautiful and it’s so refreshing to see thirty actors on stage and not to have a weak link among them.

Well played, kids.

-Joshua Conkel
Co-Artistic Director, The Management

We loved the ensemble work, the design, the movement and fight choreography, the costumes and of course, the text. The moments when the distant past, the less distant past, and the present moment converged were particularly captivating.

Wishing the a wonderful run. All our love.

- Christine and Jack (and Katherine and Judy)