Riverside Theatre presents “Circle Mirror Transformation,” a play written by Annie Baker, who earlier this week one of the famous MacArthur Fellowship “genius grants.” The play is about a group of people taking an acting class at a Vermont Community Center, and the unintended emotional directions the experience takes them.
Director Angie Toomsen and cast member Nina Swanson say that while the words of the play have a very firm structure, right down the number of seconds a long or short pause should be, the emotional content is totally up to the performers and director, creating the possibility of the show enfolding in very different ways on different nights.
Running Oct. 19 – Nov. 5 at Riverside Theatre in Iowa City. Tickets at www.riversidetheatre.org.
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