REVIEW: "Bohemian Flats" at Nimbus Theatre
Review
Sometimes I map out my weeks with amusing ferocity—scrolling through Facebook, calling up friends, and perusing reviews to figure out what I should go see. I color code my Google calendar into an Easter egg of highly anticipated events. Sometimes, though, it is Thursday night and the promise of the weekend pulls me out of the house on a whim. I see a name like Overall I was left feeling discouraged about the presentation of historical fiction through the medium of theater. Certain factual details (such as the dimensions of houses and shifting wages) were included ad nauseum, while aspects that I kept hoping would be tapped into (such as how history is created and simultaneously forgotten through the production of a specific form of media: personal letters), were glazed over. One of Nimbus’s self-proclaimed goals is to create “conversations that stay with you… that you can take out into the world” (Program). Bohemian Flats fell short of this goal for me: I felt like I had been entertained at parts and irritated at others, but nothing about the presentation of this (truly intriguing) history left me with open questions and further hunger.