The New York Times Author: Ben Brantley Article Mentions
Author, Ben BrantleyMentioned, Faye Driscoll Mentioned, August Wilson Mentioned, Tom Waits
What do you do with the detritus of your dead? All those hauntingly, definitively empty clothes; the papers that fill box after box; the books and the knickknacks; the forbidding, uninhabited furniture. The performance artist Cynthia Hopkins has provided her own solution for this emotionally fraught storage problem: she wears what her father left behind. It has become her theatrical costume. Cynthia Hopkins at SoHo Rep in The Truth: A Tragedy, a show about her father, who had Parkinson's disease. Ms. Hopkins makes her entrance as a geisha-faced clown in The Truth: A Tragedy, the angry ritual of grief that she is performing at the SoHo Rep, clad in cumbersome layers that disguise her body and distort her movements. Her skirt is made of neckt...(read more)
... What do you do with the detritus of your dead? All those hauntingly, definitively empty clothes; the papers that fill box after box; the books and the knickknacks; the forbidding, uninhabited furniture. The performance artist Cynthia Hopkins has prov ...
... become cathartic exercises in frustration, as well as defiant assertions of strength by a woman who has watched both of her parents lose their mobility. Elements of Mr. Hopkinss past, including the home entertainments of a pretelevision childhood an ...
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