“The show’s shuffle of forms...can feel like an especially soulful, high-concept record that’s more evocative than linear. But its piled-up ideas, many of them couched in esoteric language that’s not easy to parse in a 90-minute performance, ultimately don’t cohere into a moving or insightful whole.”
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“You’re not likely to find the clean edges of tried-and-true dramatic structure, but it is an admirable and rare example of theatrical theorizing set in motion.”
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“The initial information you need on ’The Whitney Album,’ Jillian Walker’s 90-minute presentation... is that it isn’t a play. By turns and sometimes simultaneously, it’s a ritual and/or a lecture...Walker closes her ritual-lecture wrapped in a cliché about people ultimately being important; but exclaiming it, she exudes such charm that only non-believers will resist. She’s a people person. ”
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