We welcome Kimberly Ramirez with her review of Cocoon at the Gene Frankel Theatre:
The very title of this play, written and directed by Kotryna Gesait, suggests a protective enclosure, confined isolation, transformation. So spectators might expect to be ushered toward the on-stage rows of folding chairs converting Gene Frankel Theatre's already intimate house into a thrust arrangement surrounding a smaller acting area. Some seats appear wrapped in cloth chrysalises of their own. Longer expanses of the same material swathe the small grid above. Lighting instruments peeking through; bold green hues wash over the space. Ethereal preshow music gives way to a voice warning that actors may talk to you, signaling that this show is trying very hard to create an immersive experience. |
