In Big Cities We Are Sentimental

 

Ontological-Hysteric Theater

March 2008

 

 

 

In Big Cities We Are Sentimental delves into sad love and suicide. In bursts of text, pieces of sound, fractures of movement, and one elaborate puppet-sculpture used far too modestly, six contemporaries mark a path through casual melancholy and near-misses, negotiating time and space like the subject does in a waking dream—occasionally awed but all-together accepting of circumstance. It is a happy play, if you are the sort who gets your happiness from mellow floods of caffeine and the mistake of waking too early on weekend mornings.

 

 

CAST & CREW

 

Created by

The Old Kent Road Theater

 

Performed by

Jesse Liebman

Scott Eckert

Victoria Tate

Charlie Hewson

Siobhan Doherty

Hollis Witherspoon

 

Puppet Design by

Abernathy Bland

 

Sound Design by

David H. Turner

 

Text & Direction by

Eric Bland