Review: "Cetology" Travels the Waves of One Woman's Psyche
Cetology Written and performed by Nelia Miller Directed by Michele Stine Presented at UNDER St. Marks 94 St. Marks Place, Manhattan, NYC Saturday, Feb. 22 at 5:30pm; Monday, Feb. 24 at 5:30pm; Thursday, Feb. 27 at 7:10pm; Monday, Mar. 2 at 5:30pm; Thursday, Mar. 5 at 8:50pm; Saturday, Mar. 7 at 10:30pm Tickets available here Nelia Miller. Image courtesy of Nelia Miller When the audience enters the theater for Cetology , a solo show written and performed by Nelia Miller, drifts of discarded pages, many crumpled, already adorn the stage space. When Miller's unnamed protagonist enters barefoot in a paneled dress to the strains of gentle music, she is tranquilly paging through a journal or notebook, which, it transpires, contains the letters that she has written that day. She reads us each one, tears it out, and buries—or, in one case, seems to plant—it. As the reasons for this habit and the import of the epistolary burial site at the seashore come into focus, Miller ex...