Review: Spill
 

http://www.bestofneworleans.com/imag...5465/stage.jpg Will Coviello on a workshop production of a new theater piece about the BP oil disaster by Will Coviello Leigh Fondakowski has created several theater pieces based on interviews and documentary-style presentations, including The Laramie Project, about the 1998 gay-bashing death of Matthew Shepard. Fondakowski and visual artist Reeva Wortel presented a workshop production of Spill at NOCCA last week, and it is full of colorful and real characters, including managers and technicians aboard the Deepwater Horizon on April 20, 2010 when the rig exploded; the father of Gordon Jones, who died in the disaster; and fishermen who lost their livelihoods and volunteered to do cleanup work.? [ Read more ]

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