“A Regal Silhouette: King David The Musical”
June 5th, 2008 by Menachem Wecker
My review of Theater J’s “David in Shadow and Light” is in this week’s Jewish Press (here).
Here’s a short selection:
“David in Shadow and Light”, the current play at Theater J at the Washington DC JCC, builds upon the charged metaphors of light and dark with a new twist. In the play, the gaps between film frames serve as a metaphor for the life of King David. If the information about David’s life in the Bible is the series of film frames, the space between frames “contain” the many details the Bible could have provided but did not – the set of emotions, thoughts, and other actions that the play improvises upon.
Image: Donna Migliaccio (Metatron) and Norman Aronovic (Adam). Photo by Stan Barouh, courtesy of Theater J.