Third Rail in the News
The struts of a bridge frame a stage made of up broken pieces of road, while the creaking, rumbling sound design creates the genuinely unsettling impression of a world falling apart around our ears. Plus, as David's wife Hannah, Rebecca Lingafelter offers a grounded and relatable performance as a woman desperately struggling to keep her life together.
http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/from-metaphor-to-clichandeacute/Content?oid=5453360
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Collapse is a drama of disappointed expectations, in which seemingly important coincidences turn out to be meaningless, and the anticipated madcap climax is dealt with quietly, offstage. Things fall apart—just deal with it.
http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-18697-collapse_(third_ra.html
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Playwright Moore begins Collapse in a nervous tizzy and quickly balances the comic silliness with a tender emotional touch. The play has modest elements of mystery – we learn the shape of things gradually, like putting together a jigsaw puzzle without the benefit of the picture on the box – but the writing and acting are engaging enough that the process is a pleasure, not an irritation.
http://www.orartswatch.org/ready-aim-fire-on-portland-stages-a-shot-in-the-dark/
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As the broken hunk of bridge that hangs off one side of the Winningstad balcony hints, Moore’s play deals in part with the aftermath of 2007’s I-35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis, which sent evening rush-hour traffic plunging into the Mississippi River. The Great Recession, with its attendant financial, interpersonal and emotional fallout, makes things more complicated and precarious.
http://www.oregonlive.com/performance/index.ssf/2012/01/collapse_review_third_rail_rep.html
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...Norris and Third Rail offer up a heck of a night at the theater, the kind of evening that gets under your skin, makes you a little uncomfortable.
http://www.oregonlive.com/performance/index.ssf/2011/10/third_rail_rep_makes_theater_a.html
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These mysteries are unraveled with great craft--while the secrets revealed are sometimes juicy, sometimes shocking, they always feel in-keeping with the characters and the information that’s already been revealed.
http://thatplayfuckingsucked.blogspot.com/2011/10/pain-and-itch.html
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