Review: Irish actor Pat Kinevane offers a solo tour de force with his award-winning 'Silent'
From Dublin’s Fishamble troupe, writer-performer Pat Kinevane in “Silent,” presented by Solas Nua. By Nelson Pressley Nelson Pressley Theater critic Email Bio Follow Theater critic March 8 at 12:21 PM Washington theater doesn’t see a lot of solo turns with the bravura force that Pat Kinevane brings to his Olivier Award-winning “Silent.
The production comes from Dublin’s Fishamble company, and Artistic Director Jim Culleton has tailored his taut, much-toured production for the Atlas’s small Lab II space. The project is part of a loose trilogy Kinevane has created about people living on the margins, and as he plays the homeless figure at the center of “Silent,” he’s apt to engage you directly about, say, Paris, or antidepressants, before sailing off into memories of the traumas that wrecked his life and left him on the streets.
As Kinevane cycles through minor anecdotes and big scenes, you’re tempted to say the show is a touch too thick with detail and digression. Yet the kaleidoscopic picture of the man’s shattered life — especially his relationship with his deceased gay brother — grows brilliantly clear. You pick up the key facts by degrees; that core story about the brother, grim and cruel, has repercussions that, in this man’s tortured mind, never settle down.
Writer-performer Pat Kinevane in “Silent,” presented by Solas Nua. For all its demanding twists and flamboyance, “Silent” never feels like an actor’s showcase. Kinevane is close enough in this intimate space that he can spend a lot of time a few feet from you, speaking in a whispery purr.
Silent, written and performed by Pat Kinevane. Directed by Jim Culleton. Music by Denis Clohessy; costume design by Catherine Condell. Through March 24 at the Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St. NE. $35. 202-399-7993. solasnua.org.Becky Sharp returns with razzmatazz in Kate Hamill’s ‘Vanity Fair’
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