Jose Solís takes a look at The Cult Play:
Someday, someone will write a work of fiction about a cult that doesn't involve: insanity, murder and deceit. In the meantime there's more of the same in Topher Cusumano's The Cult Play, currently running at the Paradise Factory Theater in the East Village. The cult in question is led by Mama Pearl (Lori Parquet) who as the matriarch of the Northeastern Spiritual Center, has her followers practice a nameless religion that combines elements of yoga, Yoruba and crime. As Pearl pontificates about the imminent second coming of "the Goddess," she has her pupils go to the streets to find new people to convert. With nothing but fliers, and ziploc bags filled with kale leaves in hand, Pearl's Soul Scouts roam the streets looking for the signs they've been promised. . . . |
