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The Dark Kalamazoo Our DC correspondent liked this play written by and starring Oni Faida Lampley very much when she saw it four years ago at Washington's Wooly Mammoth Theatre. Having now seen it in its lates incarnation at Greenwich House, home of the Drama Dept of which Ms. Lampley is a founding member, I agree that this is one-person, dramatic storytelling at its most theatrical, and that the praises Dolores Whiskeyman heaped on this piece hold up even though the director and design team have changed. That said, I found that Ms. Lampley rambled on just a bit too long and I would have welcomed a more judicious use of a blue pencil, especially during the latter part. The rambling aspects of the memoir are diffused by Kevin Campbell's wonderful, unobtrusive musical accompaniment on an array of familiar and unsual instruments unobtrusively tucked behind a dark scrim. Below are the current production notes. -- Elyse Sommer THE DARK KALAMAZOO Written and performed by Oni Faida Lampley Sound design, original music composition & live performance by Kevin Campbell Directed by T. Prewitt Set Design: Allen Moyer Lighting Design: Heather Carson Costume Design: Gregory A. Gale Running time: 90 minutes, no intermission Greenwich House Theatre, 27 Barrow St. (off 7th Ave. So), 212-633-9632, www.dramadept.org. From 9/17/02-10/13/02; opening 9/25/02 Tues-Fri at 8pm, Sat at 3 and 8 pm, Sun @ 3pm-- $35 |
THE DARK KALAMAZOO
written and performed by Oni Faida Lampley Directed by Lynn M. Thompson Set Design: Lewis Folden Lighting Design: Lisa Ogonowski Costume Design: Reggie Ray Music Composed and Performed by: Kevin Campbell Running time: 90 minutes, no intermission Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, 1401 Church St. (202) 393-3939 Opened Nov. 10, 1999 closes Dec. 12, 1999 Reviewed by Dolores Whiskeyman Nov. 23 based on a Nov. 20 performance |