Helen Shaw reviews “FOOD,” “Redwood,” and “Faust (The Broken Show),” all shows that mask serious intent behind laughter.
Sobelle comes from the French clowning tradition of Jacques Lecoq, which sees the clown as a sacred innocent—there are no big circus shoes here, no ritual humiliation, no squirting flower. Sobelle, a kind-eyed, compact guy who looks a bit like Stanley Tucci without the Aperol spritz, has developed a practice that inserts this ingénue persona into a meticulously built dreamworld, often one preoccupied with a single idea or image.
Suddenly, he and his little bison had to deal with a huge turquoise tumbler, plonk in the middle of the West. Sobelle didn’t ignore it; instead, he gathered his tiny herd around the cup for some quiet contemplation. Were the bison worshipping this alien object? Were they peering into our plastic-laden future? It felt a little like the beginning of “2001: A Space Odyssey,” when the obelisk appears among the apes. In “Redwood,” Brittany K.
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