BWW Review: Mad Horse Streams Theatre of the Absurd Original
Portland's Mad Horse Theatre continues its commitment to new plays by company members during the pandemic. THIS IS JUST INTERMISSION by Jared Mongeau is a one-character absurdist musing on the isolation of the pandemic. Mongeau's forty-minute video is styled in the tradition of mime, featuring his protagonist, Bloomers LeFaye engaged in a series of clown circus gags, all set i9n a white-walled room with a closet that opens and closes, reinforcing the feeling of Sartrian "No Exit." Silence is the prevailing mode for most of the video, though occasional sound effects and music, as well as one ...