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Review | Grace and Glorie is So Good You Forget it’s Acting
Grace and Glorie, a play by Tom Ziegler, produced by ATLAS Partnership and directed by Julie Fulcher-Davis, opened this past weekend at Hanover Tavern.
There isn’t any meta subtext in this work. It’s all on the page, and thus, on the stage. There is no counterintuitive message, no counterfactual argument. It is a story about a dying woman, her caretaker, and the spectre of deaths between them. It is about losing in the end. It’s about what you don’t take with you. It’s about what you’ve never had, and that fact not mattering one bit anymore. It is about the value of a life, even one barely lived.
One of the jarring things about it is its bluntness. It plays “Taps” by the numbers, not straying from the sheet music, but also never missing a note. Grace and Glorie will have you staring into Thanatos’ sleepy eyes as the nighttime of the soul settles in.
Faith and faithlessness are brought to battle. Not in the evangelical sense, but in the “Do I get to punch God in the eye when I die, or will I just be dead?” An internal dialectic one tries to shush right before you’re supposed to meet Him (Her?). For such a simple story with a unidirectional trajectory, it covers a lot of ground.
Maybe the fact that it’s simple is the point, though. The air of inevitability never disperses. Death is coming, and no one on that stage can stop it. All they can do is keep busy with whatever takes a short time to complete.
How do you live a life without long-term goals? Without dreams? There is no need to embellish or negotiate the heat death of the universe. It’s going to happen, and we will not be eulogized. The weight of the situation is where the clever emotional strings are pulling from.
Sheesh, let me turn down the Bauhaus for a second. My black nail polish is chipping on my keyboard as I type this.
Read more, see more. Link in bio.
Featured: @historichanovertavern @atlaspartnership
✏️: @seethetreeproductions
📸: @jaypaulphoto
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#richmond #rva #rvamag
Grace and Glorie, a play by Tom Ziegler, produced by ATLAS Partnership and directed by Julie Fulcher-Davis, opened this past weekend at Hanover Tavern.
There isn’t any meta subtext in this work. It’s all on the page, and thus, on the stage. There is no counterintuitive message, no counterfactual argument. It is a story about a dying woman, her caretaker, and the spectre of deaths between them. It is about losing in the end. It’s about what you don’t take with you. It’s about what you’ve never had, and that fact not mattering one bit anymore. It is about the value of a life, even one barely lived.
One of the jarring things about it is its bluntness. It plays “Taps” by the numbers, not straying from the sheet music, but also never missing a note. Grace and Glorie will have you staring into Thanatos’ sleepy eyes as the nighttime of the soul settles in.
Faith and faithlessness are brought to battle. Not in the evangelical sense, but in the “Do I get to punch God in the eye when I die, or will I just be dead?” An internal dialectic one tries to shush right before you’re supposed to meet Him (Her?). For such a simple story with a unidirectional trajectory, it covers a lot of ground.
Maybe the fact that it’s simple is the point, though. The air of inevitability never disperses. Death is coming, and no one on that stage can stop it. All they can do is keep busy with whatever takes a short time to complete.
How do you live a life without long-term goals? Without dreams? There is no need to embellish or negotiate the heat death of the universe. It’s going to happen, and we will not be eulogized. The weight of the situation is where the clever emotional strings are pulling from.
Sheesh, let me turn down the Bauhaus for a second. My black nail polish is chipping on my keyboard as I type this.
Read more, see more. Link in bio.
Featured: @historichanovertavern @atlaspartnership
✏️: @seethetreeproductions
📸: @jaypaulphoto
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#richmond #rva #rvamag
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