The method of the sharing the story is following a very popular trend in technical theatre recently.  The sole actor is spending the entire time on stage alone on stage interacting with a series of video of cameras that are giving placed around the stage captioning her from different angles and capturing a variety of angles and perspectives.  We can see the cameras blow up of her faces; we can see multiples of her faces; and, we can see her faces echoed in perspective.  This just seems to be the rage this day – most notably with recent Tony given The Picture of Dorian Gray.  I felt it helped at times it was affective.  You were able to see more detail in the actor’s face, and it did give her an acting partner at time.  But I am still of these cameras taking over more and pushing out live actors out into the wings.  The projections worked here – but they could go so wrong in a lesser production.  Interestingly the head designer for the production called these projections as part of the new art of “media-turgy” – an art of directing the story of the eye.

As to the play itself, it took awhile to piece together the “who” and “when” of the story as I was mesmerized by the videos, missing some of the exposition.   I also felt that the camera kept catharses weak at the end of the show and ultimately left the audience flat.  There is no doubt that Jen Tullock is a powerhouse actress. I am just not sure she needed all of the cords and plugs.