Critic’s Choice – Scenario for Non-existing but Possible Instrumental Actors

“It seams like a lecture, but Peszek – using nothing but fire, water, flour, Ping-Pong balls, buckets, fishing line, a cello, and every inch of the stage – makes it looks easy. His virtuoso turn also happens to be mindless kinetic fun.

Like the self-conscious text, the physical commentary is alternately oblique, sardonic, thoughful, ridiculous – but it has an unbroken, almost musical rhythm, that’s mesmering. Playwright and critic Boguslaw Schaeffer is best known as a composer, and in a sense the limber, rubber-faced Peszek is both conductor andorchestra for this piece – the”instrumental actor” of the title – dramatizing both the difficulty of making, meaningful art and the frustrating art of describing that difficulty.”