After The Quake presented by Rorschach Theatre at Atlas Performing Arts Center

After The Quake

Atlas Performing Arts Center
1333 H Street NE Washington

In the aftermath of a terrible earthquake, a writer fueled by heartbreak heals a broken little girl, while a menacing frog saves Tokyo from an enormous worm. Adapted from the short stories of Haruki Marakami, Galati’s play brings to life Murakami’s “hallucinatory world where the real and surreal merge and overlap, where dreams and real-life nightmares are impossible to tell apart”. (New York Times)

Presented by Rorschach Theatre

Thru - Nov 6, 2011

Thursdays: 8:00pm

Fridays: 8:00pm

Saturdays: 8:00pm

Sundays: 3:00pm

Price: $15-$25

Show Type: Drama

Running Time: 1 hour,30 mins with no intermission

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After The Quake Reviews

Average Rating based on 4 reviews

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Washington Post - Somewhat Recommended

"... Words to that effect are uttered a couple of times in “After the Quake,” a woefully fragile adaptation of Haruki Murakami tales at Rorschach Theatre. The drama, based on stories inspired by the 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan, is about storytelling and dreams. The line between what’s real and what’s imagined gets blurred, and the plot gets lost in the soup."

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- Nelson Pressley

Washington City Paper - Recommended

"... Junpei’s magical-realist story—about a shy banker who must aid a giant magical-realist frog in combat against a giant magical-realist worm—provides the evening’s play-within-a-play. Galati’s script preserves luxurious passages of Murakami’s (translated) prose, a sensual pleasure as performed by each member of the company. The design team, meanwhile, has created a visual and aural environment to match the haunted elegance of the words: Newspaper pages and homemade missing-persons flyers paper the theater space’s walls, while bits of detritus—plush toys, plastic bottles, 45-RPM records —hang from the ceiling. Ingeniously, when an actor needs a prop, it’s usually hanging just overhead."

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- Chris Klimek

MD Theatre Guide - Recommended

"... Debra Kim Sivigny has wisely let the actors’ well-choreographed physicality transport us in lieu of a garishly overdone stage. The space is so intimate that anything more than the plain, squat table center stage, the detritus of someone’s life – a teddy, tea kettle, LPs, camcorder, badminton racquet, disposable dust masks – suspended from the ceiling and walls plastered with newspapers advertising disaster would be garish overkill."

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- Charlotte Asmuth

DCTheatreScene - Highly Recommended

It would be too glib to say this is a story of healing. It is something better: a story about ordinary people living their lives, through difficulties. Director Randy Baker’s instincts with Frank Galati’s good adaptation are superb; all of his actors give subtle and precise renderings of their characters, full of great knowingness and understanding.

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- Tim Treanor

After The Quake presented by Rorschach Theatre at Atlas Performing Arts Center

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After The Quake Reviews

Washington Post - Somewhat Recommended

Washington City Paper - Recommended

MD Theatre Guide - Recommended

DCTheatreScene - Highly Recommended

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