Eugenie Chan's Bone to Pick is an exploration of the legend of Ariadne, daughter of King Minos of Crete, eventually won, as a trophy, by Theseus, the great Athenian hero, but Chan's tale is not told in heroic couplets, from the outside in, but from within the mind of Ariadne, from the inside out.
Paige Rogers plays Ariadne as a performance piece, singular, impressionistic, feeling her way around her own individual universe, composed of the personalities that actually collided with her own time and place, not the time and place of legend, that external outside-in, objective space, but the universe of Ariadne, a woman in the world, from the inside out, unrecognizable and absolutely original. The absence of narrative and the singularity of the cast leaves the audience outside of the play, looking in, trying to understand a play with a minimal surface, an exterior smaller than its interior, no typical handles to grasp, bits of legend half-heard, Ariadne trapped in a bell jar.
The engineered set is build for the road. I'm a big fan of Cutting Ball in the first place. They can do no wrong. Their bold program is a delight to the embodied mind.
Bone to Pick plays with Diadem at the Exit on Taylor until February 13th 2011 at the Exit on Taylor in San Francisco.
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