Crack’d
the performance tube
ON, Canada
Written by Catherine Montgomery
Director: Heather Davies
Dramaturg: Samantha Madely
“Trace Morgan’s mother is dead. Trace will do whatever it takes to forget. She travels through the night and ultimately finds what she’s looking for in a familiar face. Through Space Exploration, Jack Daniels, and the dreaded ‘Emotional Overload’, together they draw a map of human experience that transcends age and circumstance.”
50 min
The Red Room
Thu 2/25,9:30 ,Sat 2/27,12:30 ,Sun 2/28,3:30 ,Tue 3/02,9:30 ,Thu 3/04,6:30 ,Sat 3/06,8:00
$13.00, $8.00
The beautiful Catherine Montgomery’s brilliant work and powerful performance takes her audience on a mesmerizing –and emotionally exhausting – journey through the world of a young woman and the effects her beloved but mentally ill mother have on her life. The character caroms from love to loathing and back again.
This is a visceral work and deeply moving. Ms. Montgomery also manages to find a lot of humor, albeit it dark, in these characters and their situations.
Ms. Montgomery’s fluid and elegant body movements add another dimension to this work by providing a gracefully visual background which help to both anchor and propel the story.
The only criticism, and it’s a very small one, that it was sometimes hard to know if she was playing two characters , or just one moving back and forth in time. But, ultimately, that really didn’t matter very much.