Mary Paula Hunter

Dance Review: DanzAbierta’s “MalSon” — Retrograde

March 22, 2018
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We were reminded of how difficult it is to create an evening-length’s choreography without a storyline, musical structure, or a well-developed concept

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Theater Review: Wilbury Theatre Group’s “The Skin of Our Teeth” — Surreal Meltdown

February 5, 2018
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The WTG production succeeds largely because it heightens the absurdity of a play that takes a comic look at catastrophe.

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Theater Review: “The Wolves” — Theater of the Prosaic

January 3, 2018
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Perhaps the theatre of millennials will resemble Reality TV, resistant to suggestive metaphor and the rewards of complex narration.

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Favorite Dance Performances of 2017

December 30, 2017
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A quartet of critics serve up the highlights in dance for 2017.

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Theater Review: “Incognito” — Mapping the Brain

November 19, 2017
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What we don’t know about the brain and the heart drives this at times unwieldy, yet ultimately satisfying, theatrical work.

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Dance Review: Festival of South African Dance — Sheer Exhilaration

October 26, 2017
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A festival of Gumboot and Pantsula at Rhode Island College featured a large cast of virtuosic dancers and engaging musicians.

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Dance Review: Faye Driscoll — Dull Deconstruction

October 24, 2017
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Faye Driscoll’s muddled version of taking artifice apart is far too familiar; we’ve done it all before, seen it more than once.

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Theater Review: Wilbury Theatre’s Splendid “Caretaker”

October 3, 2017
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Wilbury Theatre proves that an arts organization can grow while pushing an experimental agenda.

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Theater Review: “Fuente Ovejuna” — An Underwhelming Revival

May 26, 2017
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Lope de Vega’s classic story of how the powerless stood up to authority — and won –deserves better treatment than clumsy caricature.

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Theater Review: “Faithful Cheaters” — Delightfully Frenzied Farce

May 1, 2017
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This thoroughly cockamamy world offers the kind of guilty pleasure that you hope never ends.

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