Review: Speaking (and Signing) of Job, in ‘I Was Most Alive With You’

Sep 24, 2018 · 2 comments
GG (Manhattan)
This play is fascinating and complex. I saw it in previews and noticed some open seats. It’s very much worth seeing folks.
ecco (connecticut)
oceanic and turbulent indeed but after a time the urge to dive in wanes...the challenge that those circumstances pose to an audience weakens as time passes without promise. n.b. hearing audiences tend to look for the voice, however brief the search...staging the shadow casts so that both speakers/signers are in the same sight line is essential, even if not so easy....in other words even the second or so that the hearing person gives to locating the source of the voice is a distraction and, also a separation of the simultaneous perception that enriches the non-signer's experience of sign, not to mention loss of the fraction of moments played by signing actors when the character, as opposed to the shadow, is hearing impaired.