February 21st & 22nd, 2012 | 8pm
@ The Garage: 975 Howard, San Francisco
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$15 online
“Sometimes sanity comes to us from the craziest of places.”
Directed by Tanya Taylor Rubinstein, BURST is a high-energy one-woman show about what it means to find mental & spiritual sanity amidst the pressure and ‘madness’ of modern life. Working as one of the youngest San Francisco brand namers at the height of the dot com boom, Gray’s fate is altered by a Bipolar diagnosis, followed by an tragic familial loss. She finds herself looking for answers in place 7000 miles away: Vietnam. Sparkling with wit and insight, BURST takes its audience on an 80-minute roller coaster ride through the highs and lows of bipolar, loss and life.
Gray uses physical theater, embodies 6 different characters and incorporates quotes from sources ranging from Ramana Maharishi to the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders to tell the story.
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Captivates with blistering passion…. shows that the theme of mental illness can effectively say something about all of our lives. –Show Business Weekly, NYC
Wild swings of comedy and pathos. Wonderfully articulate. -Jim Terr, NPR station
Rife with humor –The Santa Fe Reporter
Poetry and pure artistry. –Michelle Vest, Asst. Dir., Santa Fe Solo Performance Fest
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From audience members:
In New York:
“I saw an artistic vulnerability (and thus courage) that I didn’t quite know existed in real life. Also terrifying and god-damned funny.”
In San Francisco:
“Speechless. Breathless. In awe.”
In Phoenix:
“This was a dynamic meditation on pain, loss, rebirth, and the death of knowing.”
In Santa Fe:
“A ride you want to hang on through American style madness. I recognized myself in Gray’s journey and throughout I found myself rooting for her (and for me).”
