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Performance 6/20/25 – Portland Stage Studio
Do you like: Piracy? Dolly Parton? Treasure Hunting? Monocles? Ted Talks? Bears? Moose? A combination between a Bear and a Moose? Intellectual Discussions? If you said yes to any of this then you’ll love the Treasure of Dixie Bull. Because this is a “Seriously Big” Story to tell. This mantle of telling this tale is taken on wonderfully by only one person (regrettably I only know him as Sarah Pinsker but that’s a different story), but if you were to think this would be like some normal story telling then you would be sorely mistaken. This is Advanced Story Telling, with our main man taking on three different people, each with different mannerisms and dialects, to which I got the pleasure of “Thoroughly inspecting the odds and ends” of this performance. First off each character has their own set of mannerisms that you should be able to pick up on. Like let’s look at who his primary character is, the Professor who is telling the story in a class setting… So yes this show is a Frame Narrative. The Professor uses his hands to talk and walks around a bit as if to interact with his students. The Adventurer, who I should call the Aristocrat based on the way he acts and his Monocle (which during the performance he would hold in his hand or try to keep on his eye), see the Adventurer stands often in one place and doesn’t move around too much. When he does move it’s often just the left hand as his right is holding onto coat, as if it was in a sling, but he holds himself with the most righteous of prospects. Then there is the Local, who is seated and relaxed with Cigarette in his right hand, waving it all about, if you’d like to picture it just think that cool guy in a leather jacket with he slicked back hair that your mom told you not to hang out with. That guy, that’s how he holds himself. But what’s fun about it is that he’s telling his half of the story like he’s being interviewed by the cops. So now that we know the characters and what makes them different, we can be even more impressed that it’s all one guy switching seamlessly in-between each one. And so I won’t say much about the actual story but just know that it does all tie together even when you think it won’t. But please go enjoy The Treasure of Dixie Bull!
Review Submitted on 6/21/25 by Rigel DeLisle, PF25 Independent Review Team
Performance 6/22/25 – Portland Stage Studio
Good storytelling is an art. Eric Darrow Worthley does it justice with his tale of a lost pirate treasure where legend has it buried right here off the coast of Maine. It’s great fun to watch him change characters and I was with him all the way, altho the abrupt ending was unexpected. This tale is made for Portland and the Fringe.
Review Submitted on 6/23/25 by Linda, PF25 Independent Review Team
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