Reviews for North by Northwest Production Company Performances
Review: Talking With by North by Northwest Production Company
by Michael Meigs
Published on October 13, 2009
Martin's writing is sharp, perceptive and evocative, with each piece building to an epiphany, a turn or an insight. These actresses have the understanding and the rhythm of the pieces; they set the hook when appropriate.
The solo monologue is one of the purest demonstrations of the art. These six women come individually to you in the intimacy and immediacy of the City Theatre's small house. In each scene the actress takes that text with your complicity and, before your eyes, becomes the character. "Jane Martin" is probably a pseudonym for Jon Jory, who has directed all of her ten plays. The mysterious Jane has never been seen. She twice won …
Review: Hay Fever by North by Northwest Production Company
by Michael Meigs
Published on May 25, 2009
All those Blisses have a fine time trying to enlist their visitors in a post-dinner parlor game similar to charades, but their real joy is that of making theatre in real life.
Bernadette Nason sparkles like pink champagne in this amusing, silly piece written by "the master" Noël Coward when he was a mere boy of 25. Hay Fever lightly chronicles the start of a weekend at a country house near London, property of the Bliss family -- David is a novelist, Judith is an actress who recently said her adieux to the London stage and their children Simon and Sorel have no identifiable professions or preoccupations. They all have artistic …
Review: The Shadow Box by North by Northwest Production Company
by Michael Meigs
Published on February 11, 2009
As Agnes, the dutiful daughter, Miriam Rubin delivers a devastating performance, one of range and subtle intensity. Though she is largely silent in the early scenes, Agnes is the pivot of the play.
Now, here is a very frightening place -- a hospice somewhere in California, in which a disembodied therapist with a warm but neutral voice projects himself into your cottage once a day. "How are you feeling? Would you like to tell me about it?" That voice is kind, as calmly reflective and enigmatic as a mirror, and it offers not the slightest shred of hope or counsel.You look good, you might have a few physical twinges but …
Review: I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change by North by Northwest Production Company
by Michael Meigs
Published on September 21, 2008
The show has the bright, derisive flash of New York – it is fun poked by sophisticate singles and the New York artist community at the dilemmas of the love life of bourgeois middle America.
This cheery cabaret production is a strawberry parfait, a delicious concocoction highly appealing to the eye with lots of sugar and self-confident sophistication. The North by Northwest Theatre Company has enlisted four attractive and highly talented actor/singers to create in Austin the first presentation of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, a piece that played for 12 years off Broadway. Its 5000+ performances put the run of this simple musical second only to the Fantastiks.ILYYPNC …