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
THE CARETAKER
GOD OF CARNAGE
ORLANDO
METAMORPHOSES
THE BOOK OF WILL
THE ROSE TATTOO
THE BERLIN DIAIRES
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
DRACULA
THE VISIT
MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN
LISTEN FOR THE LIGHT
FAIR PLAY
TAMBO & BONES
DIE HARD IS A CHRISTMAS MOVIE
NEVERWHERE
SUPERTRUE
MAKE WAY FOR DUCKLINGS
NINE
WINNIE THE POOH
THE HOBBIT
QUEENS GIRL: BLACK IN THE GREEN MOUNTAINS
CARRIE
LITTLE WOMEN THE MUSICAL
FRANKENSTEIN
A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD
BLACK IS HOLY
ANDY'S HOUSE OF [BLANK]
PIPPIN
KEEPER OF THE REALM
MAMMA MIA!
SOMETIMES THE RAIN...
THE FISHERMAN'S WIFE
SLEEPING GIANT
LAST DANCE, LOST DANCE
BEERTOWN
LITTLE WOMEN
UNREALIZED DESIGNS