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Performance
Samples
Reviews
"This
is where it comes from. . . . takes place in a black-board lined
open box scrawled with buzz phrases. . . . The theme in this hour-long
series of text fragments is sexuality; not just sexual identity but sex-role
identification which manifests itself in splattery waves of anxiety, confusion
and hostility. A 'crazy man' . . . . rants. . . Impossibly provocative
couples are glimpsed. . . . neighbors are spied in various alarming, lustful
practices. . . . the show's bottled-and-shaken intensity doesn't aim toward
fill good catharsis -- it's more of a discomforting spur toward further
discussion."
-
SF Bay Guardian
"Fascinating,
his panorama of characters range from a crazy man screaming obscenities
to himself to relating stories of relationships. With bare-bones honesty
and rawness, he lets us see his inner torment, the feelings of foolishness,
fear or confusion as he tries to figure out his own sexual identity. .
."
-Drama-Logue
"Sten
Rudstrom's Theater of Cruelty...is a triumphant spectacle
...An unassuming parade of snapshots of a fragmented mind, it is miraculously
also a unified picture of one of this century's most enigmatic advocates
of the visceral power of theater. At the center is Rudstrom as Artaud,
his flat, all-American diction a foil to a body language that spells out
mental disintegration with almost cruel clarity. The result is one terrific
show."
-SF Chronicle
"Solo
performer Sten Rudstrom taps into deeply buried reservoirs
of anger in his excavation of the roots of sexuality, This
is where it comes from.
Flailing against the facile categorization offered by terms like "heterosexual"
and "homosexual," Rudstrøm also cringes at fears of hermaphrodism. . .
Perhaps most surprising is the savage humor the performer employs to bind
together the scary, scandalous and romantic."
-San Francisco Weekly
"The
Yesterday Variations was a hilarious and frightening glimpse at
how the words and music of icons Lennon and McCartney might be (and surely
are) rumbling around in the subconscious of the psychotic."
-SF Bay Guardian
"Rudstrom's
rendition of the McCartney 'classic' fashionably deviated over and above
what anyone could have dreamed up. . . . [his] loungy ruffled shirt embellished
his disturbed yet humorous dismantling of sentimentality."
- SF Bay Guardian
"This
is where it comes from, a piece about men's relationships with
other men, women and themselves. . . . [is] a tightly-scripted set of
short stories. . . . his spare physical actions provided just the right
highlights. . . .breaking out of loneliness through sex. . . . provided
a sense of there being no escape. . . . lifted its viewers up to get a
better view of themselves and their relationships with people around them."
-P-Form
