Text by Deena O. Hyatt posted on Brightest Young Things June 6, 2012
“Two microphones on opposite ends of a long table await. Adrian Parsons, wearing a white lab coat and a theatrical hand-painted Venetian mask, takes his place behind the table. Storytellers, Andrew Bucket and Catalina Lavalle, approach their microphone knowingly waiting as Parsons takes out a bottle of red wine, gives each a glass and begins to pour. They drink their wine, but instead of placing the glasses back on the table, they curiously tuck them under their armpits as Parsons produces yet another two glasses out and pours again. Lavalle begins her story. In an otherwise alienating atmosphere of white lab coats, the human voice draws us into the ancient art of storytelling. Memories of her high school first love unfold as she becomes increasingly intoxicated. This very long-winded diary entry of mundane heartbreak with a heavy undercurrent of insecure projections just doesn’t seem to be ending. This truly is an endurance test.”
