"Words are heavy. They're like stones. If birds could talk they couldn't fly.*" This quote from my favorite TV show
Northern Exposure perfectly expresses my feelings about words (anyone who's met me knows I save the bulk of my words for this blog). Words are hard. Sometimes words aren't enough to express our thoughts and feelings (as
Evan Hanson sings, "words fail"). And words are open to interpretation, sometimes they come out differently than how we intended them.
The Moving Company (one of my favorite #TCTheater companies in the last six years, since seeing
Come Hell and High Water in 2011) has taken that idea of the inadequacy of words and extended it into a 75-minute wordless (but not entirely silent) exploration of... well... a bunch of stuff. Created by the five-person ensemble under the direction of Dominique Serrand and using movement, music, and a little how'd-they-do-that theater magic,
Speechless is poignant, heart-breaking, funny, and mesmerizing.
