Women of 4G
Babes With Blades
Written by Amy Tofte
Directed by Lauren Katz
I saw this show before I had the idea to launch this blog, so this is less a review than it a retrospective. It's closing this weekend. Go see it!
Like most right thinking Americans I love a good space opera that relies on fantasy and mythological world building like Star Wars and (later) Star Trek where space is domesticated, home to millions of aliens and robots and laser guns and things. But there is nothing that beats a good grimly realistic space adventure, where outer space is understood to be a desolate void that it will in fact kill you unless you are very, very competent and very, very careful, more in line I would argue with the original Trek, as well as properties like Firefly, Alien, or 2001 (floating space baby aside)
Women of 4G fits very well into the latter tradition, it's hard sci fi not too far removed from our own time. A crew of female astronauts and their male captain has ventured out to the other end of our solar system on what they've been told is a routine mission but turns out to be something far more important (don't know why that's such an awesome trope but it is)
They're to fly to a satellite, perform a spacewalk, upload some critical data and return home. The mission is disrupted when the lothario captain is found murdered, with several aboard having possible motives. He'd had affairs with both the stoic second in command, Stark (Ashley Yates) and an ambitious junior officer, Ensign Pierce. (Jillian Neff) Another suspect is Dr. Wollman (Jazmin Corona) the brilliant scientist who created the satellite and might have done the skipper in for plotting to abort the mission.
Tofte and Katz construct excellent character dynamics between this intelligent, uncompromising and sometimes combative group of women, with the latter quality being expertly executed in the company's signature style by Violence Designer Maureen Yasko.
The play never stops surprising as what starts as a murder mystery becomes a gripping, and inspring tale of survival.
Go see it! You've got like two more chances!
https://www.facebook.com/events/2485724668323685/
Babes With Blades
Written by Amy Tofte
Directed by Lauren Katz
I saw this show before I had the idea to launch this blog, so this is less a review than it a retrospective. It's closing this weekend. Go see it!
Like most right thinking Americans I love a good space opera that relies on fantasy and mythological world building like Star Wars and (later) Star Trek where space is domesticated, home to millions of aliens and robots and laser guns and things. But there is nothing that beats a good grimly realistic space adventure, where outer space is understood to be a desolate void that it will in fact kill you unless you are very, very competent and very, very careful, more in line I would argue with the original Trek, as well as properties like Firefly, Alien, or 2001 (floating space baby aside)
Women of 4G fits very well into the latter tradition, it's hard sci fi not too far removed from our own time. A crew of female astronauts and their male captain has ventured out to the other end of our solar system on what they've been told is a routine mission but turns out to be something far more important (don't know why that's such an awesome trope but it is)
They're to fly to a satellite, perform a spacewalk, upload some critical data and return home. The mission is disrupted when the lothario captain is found murdered, with several aboard having possible motives. He'd had affairs with both the stoic second in command, Stark (Ashley Yates) and an ambitious junior officer, Ensign Pierce. (Jillian Neff) Another suspect is Dr. Wollman (Jazmin Corona) the brilliant scientist who created the satellite and might have done the skipper in for plotting to abort the mission.
Tofte and Katz construct excellent character dynamics between this intelligent, uncompromising and sometimes combative group of women, with the latter quality being expertly executed in the company's signature style by Violence Designer Maureen Yasko.
The play never stops surprising as what starts as a murder mystery becomes a gripping, and inspring tale of survival.
Go see it! You've got like two more chances!
https://www.facebook.com/events/2485724668323685/
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