THEATRE REVIEW: The compelling drama of Filigree Theatre's Fire in Dreamland ignites but doesn’t blaze.
The historic Coney Island amusement park in Brooklyn is known for its landmark roller coasters, national hot dog eating contest, and annual Mermaid Parade that has featured thousands of sea creature-identifying participants in homemade costumes and attracted hundreds of thousands of curious onlookers.
The second disaster, a flood caused by Hurricane Sandy that devastated New York's coastline, took place in 2012. In its wake, a year later, we find Kate on a waterlogged boardwalk, demoralized by the catastrophic impact of the flood on the community, depressed by the recent death of her father and his deathbed wish that she do something meaningful with her life, and disillusioned by her go-nowhere job as a low-level bureaucrat. She's desperate for something to live for and believe in.
The playwright squeezes quite a lot into her short play and director Elizabeth V. Newman does a terrific job bringing most of it to life. Under her guidance, her talented actors create complex characters out of their dialogue and make the most of their monologues, subtly drawing metaphors from the material that connect aspects of the Coney Island natural disasters to their own life stories. There are moments when performances spark and then ignite from the intensity and friction they generate.
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