"Well, you don’t see something like that every day." That was my reaction immediately after watching The Unrepentant Necrophile, the latest offering from The Coldharts.
This one-man biopic of visionary inventor Nikola Tesla by Seattle performer Ricky Coates is remarkably ambitious. Tesla is a nearly mythic figure of tremendous historic importance, but has never been in the center of the public consciousness.
This play starts with eight actors (all CCM students) in various stages of undress, asking a simple question: If we all come into the world naked, why are we eventually compelled to cover ourselves with clothes?
So what happened to the parents of the Darling children after they flew off to Neverland with Peter Pan? That’s the question poignantly explored in Darlings.