Combat Choreogreaphy

By Marven Moss

As a combat choreographer, David Brimmer looks for “the truth rather than reality.”

“We’ve become desensitized to violence,” he says. “So I want to convey the emotion of the moment and reach you at the gut level, accentuating the consequences rather than the illusion.”.

“Instead of a short-lived adrenalin rush,” Brimmer says, “I try to create a visceral encounter, what the Greeks call catharsis, an experience that you take with you after you leave the theater.”

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The author interviewed Alan Bates in 2002 as part of her job as a theater critic.

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Making A Diference

By Rosalind Friedman

“You use a glass mirror to see your face-you use a work of art to see your soul:” G. B. Shaw

I’ve been asked a number of questions during the thirty very odd years that I’ve been a theater critic. These are some of the most common:

Q: Theater Critic?! That must be a glamorous job. How did you get it?

A: When my children were small, volunteering in Trumbull and the surrounding area offered me diverse opportunities from decorating a library to composing the town song to chairing a literary competition. While substitute teaching in English and Music, I wrote and directed original musicals, touring with them throughout Fairfield County. I won awards for free lance articles on a myriad of subjects for newspapers and magazines, published poetry and short fiction, ran a tutoring service and a public relations business. Every once in a while I reviewed a play for the local newspaper.

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