BODY AWARENESS
By Annie Baker
ROSE WAGNER PERFORMING ART CENTER, PYGMALION PRODUCTIONS
May 2022
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Directed by Morag Shepherd
Stage Managed by Jennie Pett
Set Design by Allen Smith
Lighting Design by Savannah Garrick
Photos by Robert Holman
Sound Design by Troy Klee
Costume Design - Maddiey Howell Wilkins
Props by Barb Gandy
Performed by Teresa Sanderson, Tom Roche, Brenda Hattingh, and Tom Cowan
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For its Utah premiere, the Pygmalion Theatre Company offers an excellent production of Body Awareness, with smart direction by Morag Shepherd and an all-around strong ensemble of actors. Smart direction, strong cast carry excellent Pygmalion Theatre Company production of Annie Baker’s Body Awareness (The Utah Review)
Pygmalion Productions’ staging—overseen by director Morag Shepherd—makes good use of Allen Smith’s set design that combines a university auditorium with Phyllis and Joyce’s kitchen and bedroom for a space that feels increasingly claustrophobic. It’s a way of drawing attention to the friction between the characters, yet it also gradually becomes clear that the conflicts are more internal and external. Local Theater Review: Pygmalion Productions' BODY AWARENESS (City Weekly)
It wouldn’t be a surprise if this comfortable multi-purposeness was a result of director Morag Shepherd’s involvement: Shepherd is famous in Salt Lake City for unbelievably improvisational theater scenarios, geographically and sonically, and in terms of audience size. For her, this all-purpose, unboundaried set would be among her tamer magic tricks. Annie Baker’s “Body Awareness” at Pygmalion (15 Bytes)

