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By Lee Gardner
Originally published in the City Paper Online
Ends Sunday January 22
The Department of Theatre Arts, the Baltimore Theatre
Project, and The Baltimore Creative Alliance present two
weeks of workshops and performances designed to fully include
anyone who does not use spoken language.
www.towson.edu/theatre
EVENT PHONE: 410-704-3289
Center for the Arts
Towson University, Osler and Cross Campus drives
VENUE PHONE: (410) 704-3289
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It's no wonder people stay away from the theater in droves--one
bad experience with an endless drab talkathon in high school
or college puts off some folks for life, and even devoted
theatergoers get burned, bored to death for hours in seats
too uncomfortable for napping. That's not likely to happen
with QuestFest. A hellzapoppin' explosion of "visual
theater"--productions that emphasize visual storytelling,
through everything from choreography to pieces designed
for and featuring the hearing-impaired--QuestFest takes
over a handful of Baltimore's more progressive stage venues
for the next two weeks, and this small space offers scant
room for expounding on everything that's happening (full
details can be found on the festival web site). Likely
highlights include performances by freakazoid dance company
Pilobolus Too (Towson University Center for the Arts, Jan.
12-15), a pair of unorthodox love stories in Blood Makes
Noise and Into the Night (Theatre Project, Jan 12-15, 19-22),
and visual-theater adaptations of erstwhile Baltimorean
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The
Masque of the Red Death" (Creative Alliance, Jan.
13-14).
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