In Jim Cartwright’s play, the struggling title character escapes from her chaotic life into a world of songbooks.
Alexandra Main, Ben Veatch and Emjoy Gavino in"The Rise and Fall of Little Voice" by Gift Theatre.
In Jim Cartwright’s “The Rise and Fall of Little Voice,” the struggling title character escapes from her dysfunctional and chaotic life into a world of French chansons and songbooks, far over the rainbow from the working-class life in Yorkshire, England, circa 1992. Emjoy Gavino, who plays L.V., as her family calls her, sounds simply spectacular in those cabaret sequences, not only singing like everyone from Billie Holiday to Gracie Fields to Judy Garland, but simultaneously showing us their emancipatory power for her character. Cartwright was writing about the power of the arts not only as a means of escape from the various quotidian hells in which some young people find themselves caught at an early age, but also about their capacity for transformation.
Chicago’s Gift Theatre is currently working on Milwaukee Avenue at the Six Corners home of the Filament Theatre, a cool and comfortable space but considerably larger than its more intimate former digs. That bigger theater adds to the challenges, for sure. But the issues here are really about the need for more willingness to go to the harder places of life.In essence, this new production from directors Devon de Mayo and Peter G. Andersen lacks edge and menace.
L.V. has a friend, Billy , who cares for her and you’re intended to see him as L.V.’s one assist, if any, in a brutal world. But that’s not really how it feels in this production, where you get a bevy of entertaining characters for sure, and much wild comic business ensues, but you don’t see and feel the core pain that makes L.V.’s eventual transformation to Laura so potentially cathartic.
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