PRAYERS FOR THE UNDOING OF SPELLS
Here’s some free advice, Beau. Call it a work in progress, tell us you still haven’t gotten all the glitches out. Otherwise Prayers wastes a great title on a mess.
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Prayers offers a complex look at three haunted lives. It is often surreal and kind of manic. It’s violent and graphic and definitely not for the weak of stomach. But what recommends it are solid performances and the company’s willingness to try the unusual.
The whole thing is structured to bring Linsey and Elwood together–Linsey who talks to ghosts, and Elwood who is, in a sense, a ghost. By the force of her imagination, Linsey can make almost anything happen. During a job interview, she says, she sees the interviewer reduced to a bloody pulp. It only happens in her mind, of course, but it happens. Elwood has a black thumb, and whatever, whomever he touches, dies. He can’t figure out why. He’s not even sure he believes it. Obviously, these two are a match made in hell, right?
