East of Eadie

[P3D Greg Dinkins <dinkins@xxxxxxxx>]

I saw East of Eadie last week too. I can't add much to Eric Drysdale's
excellent review, except that I might have raved one notch higher. I'm still
so impressed at the basic idea of using a 3-d slide show as the
play-within-the-play to take a trip into a character's mind, to see the
character's own illusions illustrated. And Ray Dobbins's photography
achieves that illusory quality. 

I could pick nits, like I wished for a better screen, and maybe one or two
slides could have been edited. But this is an amazingly successful overall
product.

With the 3-D show, the drag stars, the costumed musical numbers and all the
jokes, we had a great evening full of wows and laughs.  I didn't think much
about family betrayal, addiction, and the high cost of repressed identity,
until later. Nice work, Ray.

"East of Eadie" by Ray Dobbins, starring Bette Bloolips Bourne, thru June 1
at Performance Space 122, 150 First Avenue, New York City, ph. 212-477-5288.
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Greg Dinkins
Micropaleontology Press
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th Street
New York, New York 10024


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