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One Arm and a Leg

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HERE Arts Center, Off-Off-Broadway


One Arm and a Leg

BOTTOM LINE: Created with text, sound, and movement, the collaborative One Arm and a Leg is the best of downtown theatre.

Conceived and directed by Calla Videt, One Arm and a Leg is a devised, interdisciplinary performance based on a Japanese story by Yasunari Kawabata.

The original story One Arm and a Leg involves a woman leaving her arm for a man at a bar. The performance it has inspired is an episodic journey riffing on this idea, and exploring different ways people can give of themselves (literally represented by their right arm), and what we then do with an "arm" we have been given. Text, motion, and stage images intertwine as these characters try to connect, or reconnect.

Mary E. Stebbins's lighting for One Arm and a Leg is vivid, and practical lights are shrewdly worked into the props in ingenious ways. The soundscape of the play is a continual through line hanging the disparate "scenes" together. It's rich and varied, but there are a few weak moments when contemporary songs are incorporated that don't meld with the rest of this show. The costumes are clean and simple, and the staging is inconspicuously meticulous and inspired. But the piece de resistance of this performance is the mesmerizing choreography by brothers Jeffrey and Rick Kuperman.


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