SLEEPING GIANT / BY STEVE YOCKEY

RORSCHACH THEATRE
1020 CONNECTICUIT AVE NW / 2024

All of Rorschach’s designers…meet the script’s challenges with a satisfyingly unholy glee, and director Jenny McConnell Frederick makes clarity the watchword with a tale whose intimations assemble themselves indirectly, with key details dropped in passing exchanges and suggestions playing as important a part as specifics.

TREY GRAHAM / THE WASHINGTON POST

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.

IAN KIRKLAND / DC THEATER ARTS

DIRECTOR / JENNY MCCONNELL FREDERICK
SCENIC DESIGNER / SARAH BETH HALL
LIGHTING DESIGNER / DEAN LEONG
COSTUME DESIGNER / ASHLYNNE LUDWIG
MEDIA DESIGNER / KYLOS BRANNON
SOUND DESIGN / THOM J. WOODWARD
PROPS DESIGN / AOIFE CREIGHTON

PHOTOGRAPHY BY DJ COREY