Brilliant piece of theater going on at Hell's Kitchen's Ensemble Studio Theater for one more week.
"Hand to God" by Robert Askins is more than a send up of Christian values, but a darkly comedic examination of dysfunctional family relationships and their after-life.
The entire cast is completely brilliant in this top notch production well directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel.
Clever set design by Rebecca Lord-Surratt makes optimal use of the unusual theater layout. Puppet
Designer Marte Johanne Ekhougen has developed a bedeveling sock puppet style with teeth.
The E.S.T. teaser?: Christian Puppet Ministries are a great way to teach children about the Bible. Each child gets a puppet, and each puppet gets his own personality. But children can be fooled by Satan’s tricks. For even within the sanctuary of the Christian Puppet Ministry, the devil lurks. The people of Cypress, Texas were good Christians. Until one day at Puppet Ministry, a boy named Jason, and his puppet Tyrone, let the devil in. This is their story.
Jason / Tyrone – Steven Boyer
Margery – Geneva Carr
Timothy – Bobby Moreno
Jessica – Megan Hill
Pastor Greg – Scott Sowers
I'm paraphrasing the script, I think: "A man has only one voice. And all the rest is just noise."
See this play!
