More Notes From the Fringe
by Jim Murchison
@JimMurchison
Most of the time when I go to a one-person show, I am disappointed. I apply one critical test to my judgement of it. Would the play have been better with more actors and my answer is usually yes. So often the premise of one actor playing multiple characters is a parlour trick. In the case of Chase Padgett's and co-writer JayHopkins' magical storytelling the exact opposite is true. Because the play is about the commonality of the musical experience through various genres and how the musical experience moves, touches and informs us it is absolutely essential that a single actor moves through six different souls.
