Biblically inspired world premiere is a minor miracle
There are several small miracles concurrently on display in Ground Floor Theatre’sThe most obvious is playwrights Vanessa Garcia and Jake Cline’s re-envisioned retelling of the story about Jonah – one of the Bible’s lesser and most unreliable, disobedient, and impious of prophets – and his miraculous salvation.
Miraculously, the creative vision of director Lisa Scheps and her talented designers result in some delightful storytelling. Miraculous as well is that the play’s parallel parable and moral manage to come through and hit home despite a wordy, convoluted script. It tries hard not to be religious but has religion leaking from its seams and serves up an often-ill-suited mix of realism, metaphor, and casual absurdity .
Authentic performances by a fully vested cast – including Keaton Patterson as Jenna’s friend, Coco; Tonie Knight as Coco’s mother, Rita; Jennifer Jennings as Jenna’s mother, Lynn; and Brooke Ashley Eden as Deputy Tyler – help along these lines. Knight and Jennings are particularly effective and inviting in their creation of believable relationships between their characters and their characters’ young daughters. This gives the play plenty of much-needed heart.
The script also toggles between scenes in the whale’s belly and at various beachfront locations, and it calls for people swimming in the ocean and a whale exploding on the beach. Surely, this must be a nightmare to stage.
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