Duat
Opening Night: October 11, 2016
Closing: November 6, 2016
Theater: Soho Repertory
In the darkest hour of the night, surrender your heart to call the light. Two halves of a soul hunt through a hall of records. A librarian breaks the seal of a mysterious archive. A teacher and her class prepare the pageant to end all pageants. Duat conjures a spell of disintegration, transformation and regeneration through an incandescent performance in three parts. A little bit vaudeville, a little bit rock and soul.
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October 25, 2016
Eternity is downright cozy in “Duat,” Daniel Alexander Jones’s hearts-and-flowers-themed exploration of life and what lies beyond. This buoyantly didactic show, a Soho Rep production at the Connelly Theater, takes gentle pains to remind us that our next breath could well be our last. Not that this is necessarily a cause for lamentation. As one character, a sort of cosmic librarian, puts it, she didn’t dress for a funeral. (No, she’s wearing silver lamé.) She offers a benediction: “I pray for you that the coming darkness is a womb, not a tomb.”
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