dirty white by Theatre Terrific (review)

A modern reinvention of Ovid’s Book 2 (the Raven and the Crow) dirty white by the folks of Theatre Terrific offers a re-examination of lust, greed, immaturity and jealousy. In dirty white, we see a young girl (Cora, sublimely performed by Sindy Angel) who is being lusted after by an immature and sometimes childish God (excellent Christian G. H. Prohom). The Raven (Manuel Shulte in a great performance) and lovely Charlie Wilson who plays the Daw, are two excellent additions to the conflict (as Raven works for God, almost like an automaton).

The Boy, lovely Adam Lindgren, was fantastic as well (and a surprising turn of events that I can’t really give away). I went to The Cultch (which has been impressively renovated and I absolutely love – I was there with Chris Walts for Ali and Ali 7 a couple of weeks back) last week, with one of my best friends, ML – we wanted to check dirty white as I have always been unable to check any of Theatre Terrific‘s productions.

We both really enjoyed the play (90 minutes all told, without intermission) although I found the first 15 minutes and the last 20 of the second part of the play a bit slow, as the characters seemed to be taking a tad too much time to develop their character.

Overall, I really enjoyed this reinvention of one of Ovid’s most popular books (I was a Greek mythology fiend a couple of decades back). Thanks to Theatre Terrific for inviting me (thanks Andrew Templeton too for hooking me up with TT!). I couldn’t get a winner for my tickets giveaway so I’m re-drawing. To win a pair of tickets for a performance before May 1st, comment on this post or RT! I will draw a winner tonight at 8pm.

There will be a Wine and Cheese Affair and special performance of scenes of dirty white at Performance Works on Granville Island from 5 to 8pm, with additional jazz by Michael Klein Duo (tickets are $40 and are for sale before in the lobby).

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