So, enter and be prepared for a different kind of experience. The always innovative Rorschach company has transformed an unfinished retail space in DC’s Buzzard Point neighborhood into a magical theatrical lair. Dragon wings float in a circle above the stage (gorgeous set design by Sarah Beth Hall). Lighting designer Hailey LaRoe’s evocative, orange-tinged wide circle of light draws us in. We are in a familiar suburban kitchen, and we are not. It’s evocative, mysterious, and we are waiting for dragons.

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Indeed, Rorschach director Jenny McConnell Frederick’s entire production is attuned to Yockey’s intricate and elusive tonality. The show traffics in the dualism between perplexing nuance and campy B-movie tropes. Draping the scenery in glistening moss and an ethereal luster, set designer Sarah Beth Hall and lighting designer Dean Leong texture it with the looming threat of the monster just beyond its walls….Generally, Frederick’s production conjures up a frightful dreamscape that paints its characters’ deteriorating minds in bold strokes and cements Sleeping Giant’s abstract musings in the tangible.

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