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What if I said I am not what you think you see?
Mitchell Winter asks after barging onto the stage through a refrigerator door at the beginning of Hansol JungsWolf Play.
Jungs play keeps you in thrilling, unnerving suspense.
The truth, as Winter says at the top, is a wobbly thing.
Robin found their listing on a Yahoo!
chat room and leaped at the chance to circumvent bureaucracy and quickly have a child of her own.
Immediately, the cracks in Robins quick-and-easy approach to motherhood start to show.
The child is 6, not 3 as listed.
He tells Ash that later, in a quiet moment over breakfast.
In a striking early gesture, Ash crouches down to the level of the Wolf and the puppet.
Then Ash lifts the puppet out of the way and sees the Wolf eye to eye.
This production grips you with both its facts and its fictions.
Hell be charming and relentless and then, suddenly, helpless.
Dustin Wills, directing, sets the action in a make-believe semi-reality.
Actors walk through a physical door but also through the space where a wall might be.
You see one scene only as shadows projected onto a curtain.
As the Wolf says, this play is a wobbly thing.
Youre making this fiction real alongside the actors, believing in everything from the Kashi box to the puppeteering.
Hes not what they think they see.
Hes not what you think you see, either.
He told you that right from the start: Hes not a kid but a wolf.
WhereasWolf Playabounds in theatrical invention, the musicalCorneliaStreetcould use a lot more of it.
Norbert Leo Butz huffs and grumbles as Jacob Towney (get the last name?
But the set is filled with vaguely painted characters.
or describing a characters penis as remarkably smooth and beautiful.
There are also fundamental holes.
Wolf Playis at MCC through March 19.Cornelia Streetis at the Atlantics Stage 2 through March 5.
