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For more on her work visit her site here and follow her on Instagram.įor more on ELCAF 2019 visit the festival site here and follow them on Twitter here. Tara will be talking about ‘The Risk and Rewards of Vulnerability in Comics’ at ELCAF on June 8th. This elegant work is ideal for students who love to play with passion. Unashamedly uncompromising in tone, Nocturne is a fine example of the communicative power of Booth’s signature brand of gauche gouache. Moonlight Nocturne is a haunting intermediate lyrical solo composed by Lisa Shoemaker. Those freeform pages and lack of traditional panelling ensure that this fever dream of a comic is a work that we react to and interact with rather than read in a traditional sense.
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As her nighttime trials continue a visionary visitation from a hallucinatory butterfly creature will take her story to a thematic full circle…īooth’s use of colour has a striking intensity even when it’s deliberately subdued, with the deep blues of the midnight hours contrasted with a recurring yellow whether that be the lights of the apartment, her clothing and pillows, or the butterfly itself. Here, her signature representational style of visual characterisation is at its most effective with a protagonist whose constant movement throughout the confines of a single page or image brings to uncomfortable life the seemingly inescapable claustrophobic turmoil and emotional despair insomnia brings. But rather than drifting into blissful slumber she instead finds herself trapped in a delusional state within a nocturnal world where the recognisable and the psychedelic merge.Īnyone who has suffered the restlessness of insomnia, especially the anxiety-induced kind, will find themsleves not simply relating to Booth’s story in the pages of Nocturne but reliving the experience as well. Struggling to sleep she takes medication to remedy her insomniac condition. Following a sexual liaison that turns into an uncomfortable encounter, a young woman retires to bed. Thus Rapp characterizes his haunted narrator on the subtextual bias even as his account brings everyone else into direct bas-relief.Tara Booth’s haunting Nocturne combines themes of mental health, consent and sexuality in a vividly realised episode where the boundaries between dreamscape and reality become indistinguishable. Refracting stream-of-consciousness metaphors through discursive specifics, Rapp’s narrative unfolds with carefully attenuated shifts of tense, syntax and allusion, here stylized and poetic, there as raw as private journal entries. “Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.” That stark, matter-of-fact statement launches “Nocturne,” and its embedded significance is inexorable and intense.Īdam Rapp’s hypnotic, intricately written elegy for the fallout from an unimaginable family tragedy receives a resolute production, in which noted Belgian actor George Regout makes an impressive North American stage debut as a 32-year-old former piano prodigy struggling to transcend the event that decimated his family and upended his life.įirst presented in two-act form in 2000 at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass., then at off-Broadway’s New York Theatre Workshop in 2001, “Nocturne” operates as a solo reverie of considerable effect, albeit through means as much literary as theatrical if not more so.ĬRITICS’ PICKS: What to watch, where to go, what to eat