Willamette Week - April 25, 2003
by Steffen Silvis
Its new space has granted Liminal the freedom finally to expand on the philosophy of performance that the group has been constructing over the past five years. In its latest piece, Alex Reagan’s Three Plays Five Lives, an almost perfect synthesis of the troupe’s ideas has been created. As always, an oblique script (here three story strands woven into one piece) leads to crystalline clarity, with movement and sound girding its structure. But the energy of this enterprise has been notched upward.
What can only be described as the physical score, developed by Amanda Boekelheide, is the most astonishingly fierce and complex piece of stage action I’ve seen in Portland in years. Fresh back from her studies in Poland, Boekelheide is at the top of her art, and her fellow performers (Georgia Luce, Jeff Marchant, Madeleine Sanford and Patrick Wohlmut) are not far behind. Text, movement, video and sound (John Berendzen’s feedback-scaping provides a powerful undertow) - all the elements present in Liminal’s work collide here brilliantly under Bryan Markovitz’s direction. This piece is about guilt and longing, and about being snared by time and the times. It’s also one of the most exciting slices of theatrical experiment around at present, performed with that rarest of qualities: commitment.
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Liminal Puts a Modern Spin on Brecht/Weill
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The Seven Deadly Sins
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Where Text Meets Technology
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Letters to the Editor
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Reviews
The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other
The Oregonian April 13, 2000
Articles by Liminal members
Past news releases
Liminal stages Caryl Churchill’s play Far Away
December 16, 2005
Liminal’s Resurrectory Re-Commits, Investigates 100-Year-Old Murders
March 28, 2005
High-resolution photos of The Resurrectory
Bikes, Bands and Bacchanalia Oct. 21, 2003
Faust(Faust) August 13, 2003
Krapp’s Last Tape June 28, 2003
Three Plays, Five Lives April 1, 2003
FluXconcert PDX March 17, 2003
Minimal at Liminal February 4, 2003
The Seven Deadly Sins August 7, 2002
Objects for the Emancipated Consumer (in Vancouver, B.C.) Oct. 4, 2001
Objects for the Emancipated Consumer (in Portland) April 4, 2001
Objects for the Emancipated Consumer (in Seattle) Jan. 22, 2001
Thomas Leabhart workshop Dec. 3, 1999
Jowl Movements I-IX (3) Oct. 28, 1998
Jowl Movements I-IX (1) Oct. 8, 1998
Handke Salmagundi March 16, 1998
Symposium on the Avant-Garde in Portland March 16, 1998
Suicide in B-flat July 1997
