Thank you, Andy, for this thoughtful (as always) writing about The Following Evening for Culturebot.
“Part of what I found brilliant about The Following Evening was the way these elements nested together. We see the four performers working to discover the rhythm and pace of the performance, even as we are watching the final product. We see Paul and Ellen today, in this moment, and remembering together 1970, their first meeting. And when we are watching the show in the present, we know that the “present” we are watching is also in the past. Babies are born, relationships negotiated, time passes, meaning is made through the art of attention and juxtaposition, it accumulates and evaporates. The show is made the way that lives are lived: it is, they are, intertwined, entangled, as are we all.
The show ends and we return to quotidian time; we are more expansive, more capacious, more aware of our interconnectedness than when we entered. It seems like magic but it is not an illusion, it is not a trick. It is a glimpse into what is all around us all the time. And it is awesome.”