The Tank Reading

The act that came right after Hamlet was a reading. I don't recall what the name of it was but I just remember loving it. Usually, the typical showcase of a production would be a play or something along those lines, where a set was needed, costume, makeup, props, spectacle. I had forgotten how powerful just words could be, how much I used to love story telling. They wore all black and sat across the stage with the story in their hands and just had such a rhythmic chemistry amongst each of the different characters. The timing of the words interaction was on dot and I think that added to its believability and their conversations sounded so normal in pace and tone that it was easier for the audience to imagine it to be true. Usually, in theater we are mostly practicing our sense of vision and to be exercising another sense is new. As strange as it may seem, I think they cast very well in voices. The voices really matched the characters that were played. The textures that were projected played very well as they scanned across the faces and uniformed looks of the performers, tying in to a trance of mental imagination of all that is being spoken and the world the performers were creating for us.
Here are more photos of the night.