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Third Rail Power Trip has created a beautiful work of art in their production of Brilliant Traces by Cindy Lou Thompson.
Set in an isolated cabin in contemporary Alaska, Kerry Gudjohnsen plays an exquisite Roseanna, ephemeral, overflowing with discourse and story and attitude and beauty and a profound sadness that she will not share with Henry, the realist hermit, the pessimist, the practical man vulnerable to love, strong yet damaged, played by Mathew Gardner.
The play is the war between rationality and intuition, between trust and suspicion, personal identity and the risk of relationship, traveling and settling down, and life and death. It's a pleasure to watch this performance, seeing serious theatre done so well.
Cindy Lou Thompson's script alternates soliloquy with rapid fire back and forth. The setting, the romance, the incredible speed and polish of its surface makes the story a distinctly American tragedy. We grasp for freedom and achieve isolation.
The man lighting the show is director Mark Rachel. Hal Hughes fills in the rare quiet spot with tender violin riffs.
Brilliant Traces plays at the Phoenix Theatre 414 Mason Street near Powell BART in San Francisco until October 17th. Do not miss this fine piece of work.
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