FIVE TINY POINTS OF LIGHT
This program offers a little of each. Fragments From the Permanent Collection, by Michael Brayndick, is based on the above-mentioned premise–a man trying to strike up a conversation with a woman. The man, played by Yakov Neiditch, is smitten with a young woman, played by Kori Koerner, who sits in front of the same painting at the Art Institute every day at lunch hour. Admiring her from afar, he imagines her to be utterly confident and tranquil. Her face “seems to absorb the light from the face of everyone who walks by her,” he says. “I know I should stay away, but each day the pull grows stronger.”
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Sanctuary, by Chris Maul, is about three women, played by Cassy Harlo, Christiana King, and Tucker Brown, who are confined to a mental institution. One by one the women are interviewed by a smug, unresponsive psychiatrist; then they mysteriously disappear. The press release bills this as “a look at schizophrenic paranoia in a post-feminist society,” but that’s an awfully fancy description for such a small, ineffective piece.
