Theatre News and Reviews

Dance is an awfully limiting word when applied to a performance by Milwaukee Dance Theatre.

The company’s Thursday evening premiere of “The Initial Urge to Suck,” a piece by Isabelle Kralj and Mark Anderson, is a captivating, entertaining and sometimes moving tapestry of spoken word, music, video, automatics and dance with its roots in an early-1990s monologue by Anderson.

Its topic is life at its most mundane and most profound.

Playing at the Off-Broadway Theatre, “Initial Urge” is performed by Kralj, Anderson, Janet Lilly and Hardy Gregory, with original music and automatics (fascinating music-box creations) by Frank Pahl and taped monologue by Josie Monahan.

Additional life stories and musings are added through excerpts of videotaped interviews of a dozen people whose ages span eight decades.

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