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The natural world of space takes center stage and the descriptions are beautiful, but this doesn’t come at the expense of heart, emotion, psychology…or regrets. It may sound cliche, but I would consider this story a “feast for the imagination”. With only words, he puts human faces on a space story. With only words, he blends comedy, tragedy, horror and…regrets.
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But back to words – Bradbury manages to create what movie wizardry creates, but he does it with only words.
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He may not have been completely against it, but I get the feeling that he would have been a man of words first – then maybe pictures. I don’t know what Bradbury would think of his stories being filmed. The premise of this story is one that could easily be made into a movie with lots of special effects (actually, a movie has been made recently that is similar to this story – with lots of special effects). Of course, the lineup is a group of astronauts instead of baseball players and they were easier to keep track of.īradbury’s use of words amazes me. In a universe this dark and isolating, we should be grateful for the people we have and try to enjoy the ride we get.Space, distance, speed, screaming, lost appendages…and regrets – all get included in Ray Bradbury’s story “Kaleidoscope” which has a lineup of characters similar to the baseball story I read last week.
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This scene, as well as the play as a whole, seems to imply that in a life this lonely, we can’t be picky about the company we keep. It’s also one of the show’s prettiest moments, as Applegate is surrounded by twinkling lights as well as the voices of history’s most celebrated and hated men.Īpplegate imagines herself surrounded by these voices forever: “Churchill will still be talking, Hitler will still be mad and Roosevelt will still be saying there’s nothing to fear, nothing.” I never liked anything beautiful.”Īs Kowalski says these lines, strings of lights and star-shaped paper lanterns around the walls turn on, bringing a rare moment of light to this production. And taking me with it, me … I don’t deserve a trip like this. The title is a reference to how Applegate describes a cloud of radio signals she is dragged into by a meteor: “A kaleidoscope. This created an eerie and threatening feeling that suited the play well, but it also left the actors unable to see, and they occasionally tripped as they moved around the Eldred Blackbox theater. Before a character died, his or her flashlight would begin rapidly blinking and then switch off. This production handled this problem well: for most of the play the characters drifted on and off an unlit stage while illuminating their own faces with flashlights.
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One of the biggest challenges involved in producing this one-act is the setting: There is no static set, since the only thing unifying the characters after the accident is their radio connection. Part of this is the character’s slipping confidence, but sometimes it was unclear which emotion Harrison was representing. Kowalski is good as an aggressive crew member who challenges her superior as often as possible, but Harrison wavers in her portrayal of the Captain. Captain Hollis (Frances Harrison) and Applegate (Margaret Kowalski) have an especially turbulent relationship. With the ship destroyed and a limited supply of oxygen, there is no chance that the crew members will survive, but they still have radio contact with each other as they drift apart.Ĭharacter traits established in the opening scene are expanded upon here, and the actors do a mostly good job of distinguishing their roles. Suddenly the ship is hit by a meteor, ripping it apart and launching each crew member in a different direction. The story begins with an average day aboard a spaceship as the crew members check in with an automated psychoanalyst. This was the case with “Kaleidoscope,” the Ray Bradbury one-act produced by the Players’ Theatre Group. It seems right that a play about the brevity of life should only last 40 minutes.
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Ellie Rambo, Arts & Entertainment Editor | November 13, 2015
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