Kimberly Ramírez takes a look at Bees & Honey from MCC Theater and The Sol Project:
One hundred and fifty blocks south of Dyckman Street, inside MCC Theater, a Washington Heights apartment is simulated in a striking set by Shoko Kambara with original scenic artwork by Daniel Peguero. The environment's flat dimensions feature a ground mural at the stage's apron and a utility door mural upstage left, vibrant paintings of Dominican signifiers (tropical plants, umbrella, el diablo cojuelo, güiro, greca cafetera...) morphing into New York City skylines along the edges of its wooden floor planking. The audience for Guadalís del Carmen's Bees & Honey, developed with The Sol Project, views the play's action through this lens of layered landscapes, a surreal visual overlay of aquí y allá [here and there] during this otherwise hyperrealistic domestic two-hander. |
