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The Beautiful Oddness of Shimmer and Herringbone
Plus: Peregrine Teng Heard’s Redemption Story.
The Following Evening, written for Maddow and Zimet by Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone of 600 Highwaymen, was a gorgeous meditation on coupledom, creative labor, and the passage of time; in its own way, so was Existentialism, based on the work and lives of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir and directed by the company’s longtime collaborator, Ann Bogart. All they do is coo and poo and screw.” Through their chance encounters at Rhonda’s clothing shop, all Maddow and Zimet’s characters are headed for a wild night of the soul — a kind of bacchanal of insomnia, where reality is transcended, magical basements are discovered, and people start to speak their hearts, to see and be their fuller selves. Characters light cigarettes with sultry indifference; actors pivot a spotlight on a rolling floor-mount to catch each other in the accusing glare or carve out menacing silhouettes; and Heard’s protagonist, an aging actress named Connie Lee (Christine Toy Johnson), speaks with the Tennessee Williams–ish height and flourish of one of those dames whose entrance spells trouble.
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