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Looking Up

by Carla Cantrelle

Theatre for the New City in NYC
February 16-March 2, 2008

Carla Cantrelle and Mason Bryant.  Photo by Jan Meissner.

Carla Cantrelle and Mason Bryant. Photo by Jan Meissner.

This two-actor show about finding love takes place in a bar that hosts a trapeze act(!). Wendy (Cantrelle), the trapezista, looks down to find Jack the bartender (Bryant Mason) looking up at her, and together they brave a relationship filled with homilies about "hanging in" and "working without a net" (the symbolical wordplay gets thick during the show's 80 minutes). Too often Cantrelle settles for stock relationship scenarios without digging deeply, which deprives the script of any real bite or surprise. Still, the show is pleasant enough, especially with actual trapeze work done live onstage.

(February 2008)