Mary Poppins is a BUTTERFLY at Art|Works Theatre
by Ashley Steed~
Famed author of the Mary Poppins children’s books P.L. Travers often said “thinking is linking.” Meaning that everything is connected, no matter how tenuous the connections may seem. Writer and performer Suzan Averitt has taken this concept, linking Mary Poppins with the Virgin Mary, sexuality with spirituality, the comical with the serious. Averitt plays a delightfully charming and perceptive young girl named Mary who shares with us the way she sees the world and the way she sees the connections.
Hanging white strips of fabric serve as a discombobulated projection screen as well as a doctor’s office with a metal table. The images and video projected support as well a...
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