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The Touring Blues: J.A.S.O.N.- Myth, Murder & Mayhem in a Punk Rock World

Posted on October 22, 2014 by Noe Kamelamela

The space itself is the downstairs of the Cantab Lounge, Club Bohemia, is a venue typically used for local bands, and not theatre. Minimal lighting occasionally added ambiance to scenes. Few props appeared on the stage and most objects were reused. Costuming was simple and effective with a distressed and militant punk look (not Hot Topic). The audience was invited to leave graffiti on a set piece during the intermission.

The production feels Bostonian in nature, or at least of the recent past in Boston. The archetypes of a more contemporary era push themselves believably through scenarios appropriated from myth. Enough of each legend is presented plus real or invented additional mythos off the backs of our punk gods and goddesses of days gone by to satiate a story-hungry audience member.

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THE EDGE, BOSTON

Pete Riesenberg's play is not so much an homage to Greek mythology as it is an angry, rock and roll proclamation to the state of the theatre. Rather than literature that Greek scholars sit in dusty libraries and pour over, this play is insane maenads tearing at "the establishment" in a garage band setting.

Making a living by selling the Huntington Theatre's subscriptions to mostly upper middle-class audiences, Riesenberg has earned the right to lash out. And his electric guitar-shaped bayonet cuts to bleed as his characters sever actual limbs.

http://www.edgeboston.com/entertainment/theatre/reviews//167383/jason

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CHARLENE GOODMAN REVIEWS

     If you want to experience Peter Fonda's hallucinations from his 1967 cult epic, The Trip, without indulging in illicit magic mushrooms, J.A.S.O.N. could be the answer to your dilemma.  A majority of the actors start flipping out midway through the play on "Lotus" -which could be anything from ultra-spiked pot to those powerful, ultra mood-changing ingredients in Lysergic acid diethylamide      While The Trip was written by actor Jack Nicholson with direction from Roger Corman, the stage play takes Riesenberg's idea and has director Hatem Adell giving it shape.



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