theatregoing: the girl detective

I was impressed by the Ateh Theater Group‘s adaptation of Aimee Bender’s The Girl in the Flammable Skirt when I saw it a year and a half ago, and tonight I made my way downtown to see their take on Kelly Link‘s “The Girl Detective”. (Which you can read here if you’re so inclined.) The production worked — very well, in fact. The question-and-answer, call-and-response way in which the story is written meshes more or less perfectly with what seems to be the Ateh house style, and the use of a company shifting between various roles fits well with the plot’s ruminations on memory and the loss of/shifts in identity. And it has tap-dancing bank robbers, which is always a plus.