https:\/\/shotgunplayers.org<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\nJust as problematic is an uncertain tone. Director Emilie Whelan goes for neither larger-than-life zaniness, which would give us more permission to laugh, nor lived-in realism.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Instead, her actors shadowbox in some liminal state. When major life revelations drop, everyone keeps chugging along, barely mustering a reaction. In the great game of hot potato that is comic dialogue, the tuber is frozen, and everyone lets it kersplat to the ground.<\/p>\n
Still, a few moments break through. As a bit player whose part keeps getting cut down, Ije Success creates the layered expression of someone who sees much more than she lets on \u2014 and is perfectly comfortable not sharing any of that with the world. In one moment of filming, when Morones\u2019 Nicole is especially unhinged, Success\u2019 bewildered, \u201cDo something!\u201d expression as she turns toward the director makes her a delectably satisfying stand-in for the audience.<\/p>\n
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Nicholas Ren\u00e9 Rodriguez, left, Ije Success and Regina Morones in \u201cContinuity.\u201d<\/p>\n
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As himbo actor Jake, Nicholas Ren\u00e9 Rodriguez utters inanities like he\u2019s deeply moved by his own profundity, and Standley\u2019s PA is a riot in walks alone. His default stride is the stiff staccato of a broken man trying not to burn himself on hot lava, but then when the bigwigs push him past his limit, it morphs into a swaggering saunter that says, \u201cI see you. Just try me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cContinuity\u201d wants to honor what scientists are actually saying, and it wants to be realistic about art\u2019s role in the fight to save our planet. But simply pointing out how other storytellers fail doesn\u2019t make for a very satisfying artistic experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s not just that Wohl doesn\u2019t opt for false hope; she\u2019s right to skewer that. It\u2019s that she\u2019s chosen something equally easy \u2014 satirizing low-hanging fruit \u2014 and she\u2019s punted the real problem to future generations of artists and environmentalists to solve.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cast of Shotgun Players\u2019 \u201cContinuity.\u201d Ben Krantz\/Shotgun Players Toward the end of \u201cContinuity,\u201d a scientist named Larry…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[329,7,332,143,145,144,1058],"class_list":["post-349818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-arts-and-entertainment","tag-california","tag-east-bay","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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