However, we have dozens of other monologues that you can read. As the six weeks of the class tick by, announced by slides projected between each scene, the characters back-stories are filled in a bit more, in tales that the students eventually use against one another as the trust exercises back-fire. Like that moment in the last Narnia where theyre all dead and in heaven looking out at the places and people theyve been. Circle Mirror Transformation was developed, in part, with the assistance of the Sundance Institute Theatre . Riverside Theater opened its production of Circle Mirror Transformation last weekend, with Angie Toomsen directing. Join StageAgent today and unlock amazing theatre resources and opportunities. Report DMCA Overview The delivery acts as a window into the perceptions of how the speaker feels about the subject of the monologue, sometimes to the surprise of the latter. Directed by Sam Gold. Click the card to flip Flashcards Circle Mirror Transformation is an original play by Annie Baker. Their daughter, Erin, has stopped speaking to her father because Marty revealed to her a meaningless indiscretion James committed during his first marriage. The classes take place over six weeks, during which we learn a bit about the characters from their pre-and-post class interaction. The two shy members, Schultz and Lauren both open up and become full participants in the group. dpsinfo@broadwaylicensing.com. Tickets are available online at https://www.custommade.org/ . its giving childrens shakespeare theater. I was born right before midnight on October 24th. All become extraneous to the do-it-yourself creativity and faux self-help spiritualism-cum-acting lessons offered by the well-meant but self-involved would-be theatre guru, Marty. Reverberates with seduction and sorrowthe plays final scene is devastatingly gentle. Village Voice. Marty, the compassionate drama instructor, is married to James, a college professor. Jamess vulnerability makes him prey to the sultry charms of Theresa, the failed New York actress whos here in the middle of nowhere to heal her own emotional wounds, and winds up seducing both men (and the teenaged Lauren) with her comfort in her body and her apparently open, if facile, vulnerability. Swanson and Paulsen have a fun little game at the beginning of Paulsen checking in nonverbally for approval throughout exercises he obviously views as silly, and this tension shifts from comic to tragic as it grows throughout the piece. Playwrights Horizons, Inc., New York City, produced the World Premiere of Circle Mirror Transformation Off-Broadway in 2009. There is a wall of mirrors. Baker grew up in Amherst, Mass., and graduated from the Department of Dramatic Writing at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Slighter than I thought it would be, but overall charming with an excellent use of theater game structure as character revelation.