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Jade Hicks

Dream Feed

January 15, 2026

What "Dream Feed" does is evoke feelings, and images, and hopefully dreams. Most effective are the times when what I assume are actual dreams are recited, in one case through a voice changer, which is both funny and emotional. The music is mostly singing, but Justin Hicks plays the autoharp, an instrument you don't get to see too often in the theater (or at all). He's excellent and it makes me want to get one myself. There's also drums, but these are fairly quiet and don't take over the piece. It's mostly about the vocals, which are terrific. The audience goes bananas for it, clapping along to songs they've never heard before and leaping to their feet at the end. [more]

The Nubian Word for Flowers/Rainbird

December 29, 2017

The set for the opera was itself a living, organic phenomenon; it functioned as an additional character in the opera. IONE sat near the moveable stage-flats; her back was to the audience, yet she was one of us. Hovering above the stage set were great canvas triangles – mildly billowed faluka sails – on which IONE projected Victorian and Edwardian era images of the British Empire in all its beauty and its ugliness. Priestess and manager, oracle and medium, IONE was at once a participant in the visual commentaries on Kitchener’s internal dramas and their director. [more]