Kehr Rees (sound designer), among others. Likewise, other design elements amplify the eerie, weird elements of the play, thanks to the work of Bett Shouse (costume designer), Jessica Greenberg (lighting Designer), Cynthia L.
Photo Credit: Todd Collins.Īn apt parallel to the counterpoint unfolding on stage is the smart set design and construction, courtesy of Halee Rasmussen and Erik Reichert, respectively, which morphs into different settings but without disrupting the flow and pacing of the production. Tito Livas and Robert Scott Smith, Sleeping Giant by Steve Yockey, Salt Lake Acting Company. This is particularly effective when we see the various characters in their most discomfiting moments. The play is a theatrical dance of counterpoint, sometimes absurd to the point of irrecoverable incredulousness and others with just enough credible realities to remind us why our brains gravitate toward finding the adrenaline-inducing sensations of stories from the darker side. Taking on multiple roles at various points, the actors skillfully mine Yockey’s script for its lurid gems: Lily Hye Soo Dixon (The Naïf), Tito Livas (The Messenger), Robert Scott Smith (The Raconteur) and Casssandra Stokes-Wylie (The Convert).Ī major part of this theatrical fun is to embrace Yockey’s far-fetched rendering and plunge gleefully into this imaginative landscape, along with the actors who switch gears frequently in the emotional and comedic demands of their various characters. The cast dives into this horror comedy with the right doses of straight-faced seriousness, as they face the fears of their surroundings becoming more apocalyptic with every scene. Tito Livas, Cassie Stokes-Wylie, Sleeping Giant by Steve Yockey, Salt Lake Acting Company. There is the legend of The Butterfly King, part of a sacrificial cult which espouses cannibalism, as well as events involving strangers that seem disjointed at first but they eventually are threaded together into a narrative suggesting the deep influence and reach of the lake’s sleeping giant. In the opening scene of Sleeping Giant, during their vacation, the boyfriend proposes marriage to his girlfriend (with fireworks to boot) and from there things steadily become weirder and more eerie. But, as Yockey teases us in Sleeping Giant, even a legend that has become innocuous or lighthearted might still have the power to stoke fear in the residents of lakeside communities. Chessie, for example, which has been allegedly sighted in Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay periodically since the 1930s, has been neutered in some way to become that state’s environmental icon as well as the subject of coloring books and educational materials provided by the U.S. and the legends that have been conjured around them have become currency for tourism and local pride as well as speculation and fodder for campfire tales of fear and horror. Many Internet sites have documented sightings of lake monsters in the U.S.
Local folklore about lake monsters is found practically everywhere. The play starts with a classic trope of horror: a cabin nestled in a remote area near a lake where a mysterious giant sea monster is believed to reside. Lily Hye Soo Dixon, Robert Scott Smith, and Tito Livas, Sleeping Giant by Steve Yockey, Salt Lake Acting Company.
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