With unadulterated panache, Austin McCormick’s cast of prancing pirouetting artistes performed his bawdy naughty and tantalizingly raw production of The Judgment of Paris to perfection. Though snappy crisp and tightly controlled body motion McCormick’s tale of lustful love being the driving force behind Paris of Troy’s fatalistic attraction for Helen’s honey pot is placed on display for the audiences judgment. From Spartan warriors to buxom blondes to a top hat clad circus barker to willing Can Can girls (that will) for a fee; we are enticingly lured into history’s jury box in judgement of Paris’ lack of self-control. McCormick’s work creatively abandons timelines in order to weave this timeless story of seduction into a finely blended event that would allow one’s imagination to give way to images of Homer and Shakespeare paying oral homage to Marlene Dietrich, in a seedy French hotel
Licensing: 2008. All rights reserved.
