The titular slasher on the set with Rachel Joseph and Jaime Mire.
The San Antonio Current sent Steven G. Kellman to a showing of Slasher at Trinity University’s AtticRep and he filed his review last week. The play, by SMU grad Allison Moore is set in Austin, but San Antonio’s staging is the closest it has come to that locale. Kellman clearly enjoyed the performance, a departure from AtticRep’s standard challenging fare of Pinter, Albee and Sheppard. He asks some great questions in his commentary:
Do gory, sadistic, misogynistic movies exploit the women who play their victims? Or do they empower them? “It can’t be exploitation if they’re paying me so much,” reasons Sheena McKinney, a young waitress who, on the strength of her ability to scream, is offered $15,000 to star in a slasher film called Bloodbath. To Marc Hunter, its unscrupulous director, Sheena seems perfect to play “the last girl,” the culminating fatality in a series of atrocities inflicted on attractive women.
Read his full review, The most unkindest cut of all, on the Current’s site and head out to the show. Slasher at the AtticRep runs through May 30th. For more information, contact AtticRep at (210) 999-8524.
Meanwhile, The Current’s Ashley Lindstrom offered up her opinion of The Overtime Theater’s original performance The Life & Death of the Amazing Captain Piledriver. Clearly she had a fun time:
Dru Barkus as the Midnight Fiend, Cynthia Davila as Cobalt Girl, and Rob Barron as Captain Piledriver.
…McDowell has a gift for genre, as evidenced in the Overtime’s recent production of his stage-noir The Hard Bargain, and it’s refreshing to watch a comic-book-inspired narrative that’s actually pretty comical. Clever old-school groaners like “Sorry Barista Girl, didn’t mean to get you steamed” abound and James’s frienemy status makes for a giddily complex dynamic…
The conclusion to her review has us sold:
All are at the top of their game during the show’s slapstick and action sequences, which are engagingly staged by director Lupe Flores and performed with over-the-top vigor and physicality by the actors. Every inch of this critic was pleased to be in a theater where characters burst through walls, attacked in slow motion, and hummed their own theme music.
Definitely worth checking out the Current’s full review Funeral for a super friend. The Life and Death of Captain Piledriver runs through June 5th. For more info call The Overtime Theater at (210) 557-7562.
