The Minotaur presented by Rorschach Theatre at Atlas Performing Arts Center

The Minotaur

Atlas Performing Arts Center
1333 H Street NE Washington

A young man with the head of a bull paces his cage and contemplates his fate. Across the sea a warrior sets sail with just one goal. Between them, a girl is ready take on the world...as soon as she can win a Connect Four game. In this smart and sexy modern retelling of this famous myth, playwright Anna Ziegler (Photograph 51, Dov and Ali) creates a whimsical, haunting and poignant world about how we write the stories of our own lives, and that love, just might, conquer all.

Presented by Rorschach Theatre

Thru - Feb 17, 2013

Thursdays: 8:00pm

Fridays: 8:00pm

Saturdays: 8:00pm

Sundays: 3:00pm

Price: $30

Show Type: Comedy/Drama

Box Office: 202-399-7993

Running Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes with no intermission

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The Minotaur Reviews

Average Rating based on 6 reviews

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Washington Post - Recommended

"...As the Minotaur, David Zimmerman broods effectively and with an undercurrent of threat; he's nicely counterbalanced by Sara Dabney Tisdale's storybook-chipper Ariadne. Josh Sticklin's Theseus - tasked with slaying the Minotaur, of course - is a strapping, youthful presence in snug trousers and T-shirt. If his performance makes less of an impression, it might be because the play hits its talkiest, most tangled passages by the time we meet this "hero" (a term that comes in for some scrutiny)."

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- Nelson Pressley

DCist - Recommended

"...David Zimmerman is captivating as the jaded yet vulnerable man-eating bull-man, who like Frankenstein's monster just wants love but whose innate flaws will forever self-sabotage that pursuit. Sara Dabney Tisdale's Ariadne exudes the naïve energy and enthusiasm of a privileged college freshman, left to her own devices for the first time and incapable of grasping that the guy she likes is "just not that into her." (She justifies her obsession by babbling about how they have so much in common: "We both like TV-and making friends!") Ooh, honey."

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- Alexis Victoria Hauk

Washington City Paper - Recommended

"...Theseus' unquestioning embrace of his heroic destiny comes in for some wry interrogation here. The compact, athletic Josh Sticklin has shown himself to be a utility player before (particularly in Irish playwright Rosemary Jenkinson's single-actor plays), but his Theseus is pitched as a swaggering dope little burdened by self-awareness-he's more disquieted by the possibility of a monogamous future with Ariadne than by the prospect of taking a life. "I didn't think you'd be able to talk!" he tells the Minotaur. "In this version, I am," his quarry answers coolly. Theseus is roundly outmatched, but the Minotaur falls because that's the way we need for the story to go. We're happiest when Zimmerman & Co. try to stave off the inevitable as long as possible."

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- Chris Klimek

Washingtonian - Recommended

"...Ziegler's take on the story is extraordinarily ambitious-her characters seem to exist in a Matrix-like universe where they're condemned to play out the same story over and over again, as shackled to their fates as the Minotaur is to his underground home. But for the most part Baker's production doesn't get too bogged down in existential questions. Staged inside Atlas Performing Arts Center's Theatre Lab, the action takes place both inside and outside a circle of seats where the audience sits (the set is by David Ghatan). The walls are covered in a maze of brown string, and bare light bulbs occasionally flicker overhead. The costumes, by Lauren Cucarola, are modern and minimally intrusive-with the exception of the Minotaur, who sports a blood-red suit and a gold headpiece that looks like a cross between a crown and taxidermy, an effective visual reminder of his regal/beastly roots."

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- Sophie Gilbert

MD Theatre Guide - Somewhat Recommended

"...Ziegler's play, however, chooses a different route. Her Priest, Rabbi, and Lawyer perform their narrative indoctrination of the modern without intent or purpose, almost as if they were doing it simply because their roles as leaders of society demanded it. Britton's Priest has all the dignity required of the part, as does Valeniner's Rabbit, and Smith's Lawyer is necessarily irreverent; but none of these three protagonists confront the insubordination of the three Greek characters with any zeal. Now, to be sure, Ziegler does not give them much of a chance. So, as a result, we watch the play unfold more as a fictional academic experiment about how to challenge a traditional narrative than as any kind of real life rebellion against the cultural stories that bind us."

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- Robert Michael Oliver

DCTheatreScene - Recommended

If most teenage girls described their brother as a beast, we would chalk it up to youthful exaggeration. In Ariadne’s case it is literally true since her half-brother is The Minotaur, the eponymous character in Rorschach Theatre’s joint world premiere of a quirky, thoughtful, and entertaining new play by Anna Ziegler. The Minotaur is a modern update of the classic Greek myth.

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- Steven McKnight

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