Dinwiddie delivers “a message to the young people of today”

May 28, 2010 · Posted by InfiniteBody ·
Now through June 5, The Chocolate Factory is presenting Andrew Dinwiddie's heroic performance of Get Mad at Sin! In this demanding, hour-long solo, directed by Jeff Larson, Dinwiddie channels the fevered words and maniacal body language of a fundamentalist Christian preacher--specifically, one Jimmy Swaggart, the powerful televangelist brought low in 1988 by the revelation that he had solicited a prostitute. Get Mad at Sin! is preached to a small audience arranged in an unusual seating pattern: two elevated facing rows crossing the length of the upstairs theater. Dinwiddie prowls between these rows, at times coming dangerously close to his watchers. He brings to life, verbatim, an LP recording of ...

Dinwiddie delivers “a message to the young people of today”

May 28, 2010 · Posted by InfiniteBody ·
Now through June 5, The Chocolate Factory is presenting Andrew Dinwiddie's heroic performance of Get Mad at Sin! In this demanding, hour-long solo, directed by Jeff Larson, Dinwiddie channels the fevered words and maniacal body language of a fundamentalist Christian preacher--specifically, one Jimmy Swaggart, the powerful televangelist brought low in 1988 by the revelation that he had solicited a prostitute. Get Mad at Sin! is preached to a small audience arranged in an unusual seating pattern: two elevated facing rows crossing the length of the upstairs theater. Dinwiddie prowls between these rows, at times coming dangerously close to his watchers. He brings to life, verbatim, an LP recording of ...

Big Eater at The Kitchen

March 11, 2010 · Posted by Dancing Perfectly Free ·
Andrew Dinwiddie and Neal Medlyn in David Neumann’s Big Eater, photo by Paula Court An inebriated David Hasselhoff, a Big Mac, Giselle, and pretentious panel discussions – these are just a few of the sources that shaped David Neumann’s Big Eater, which was performed at The Kitchen last weekend and continues through this Saturday.  This may sound like a recipe for big laughs, but Big Eater is a dark, depressing work filled with piles of language and movement – not to mention a pile of chairs from floor to ceiling – that become denser and more disorderly as the work progresses.  ...