The Angel Eaters Trilogy
by Johnna Adams
Angel Eaters, directed by Jessi Hill
Rattlers, directed by Jerry Ruiz
8 Little Antichrists, directed by Kelly O’Donnell
“It is an experience that you leave feeling more than a bit uneasy in the deepest pit of your stomach, and I think that’s how theatre should leave you: questioning some aspect of your world. Angel Eaters is a brilliant first chapter in a trilogy that does just that.
“The performances (in Rattlers) are once again stellar, most notably those of Jason Paradine and Richard B. Watson, as Osley and Everett, respectively.
August Schulenburg finds an amusing balance between insanity and a kind of pathetic evil…His scene of cooing and calming the misbehaving 8 baby antichrists is hilarious.
“Adams and Flux Theatre have created a compelling series with an ambitious vision that will hopefully serve as a model for other brave artists and production companies.”
Flux Theatre Ensemble, ever the ambitious indie-theatre group, has remarkably launched a veritable festival of theatre, performing all three of Adams’ plays in rep on a rotating schedule everyday for nearly a month…I enthusiastically recommend the Angel Eater’s Trilogy as a foray into a great work by Flux Theatre Ensemble and on part of the playwright herself.
Jason Tseng, The Bilerico Project
Flux Theatre Ensemble’s production of Angel Eaters, which incorporates elements of O’Neill, Williams, Steinbeck and Lovecraft to create a story concerning faith, manipulation and the macabre, pulls of something that is very rare in the indie theatre scene: a show that succeeds both as visual spectacle and intimate character-based drama.”
One of the pleasures derived from attending lots of Off-Off-Broadway plays is the chance to discover new talent, and Johnna Adams’ wildly ambitious and mostly successful new trilogy is currently offering a bumper crop of it.