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November 3, 2003
The Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY
Lomask's curiosity about Earth and space was evident from the start,
when a solitary artist — suspended in a harness above the floor —
spun around the stage against a projected backdrop of our home planet. "Within
Outer Spaces" has 14 distinct segments, played out without intermission
as an evolution from the lifeless to the life-filled. The sound elements (directed
by Thomas Day) reinforced the notion that anything, at any moment, could grab
your ear as well as your eye.
Patrons not used to Lomask's method (and I include myself) may have taken
awhile to appreciate her achievement. Several early sequences weren't nearly
as distinctive as what came later; what was at first merely clever became,
after a while, genuinely ingenious. I'm not sure, for instance, that we needed
so much juggling, but a whirling duet between two bodies connected by a web
of elastic cords was brilliantly managed. And it was hard not to love the
sight of creeping, intertwined beings asserting themselves on dry land. In
Capacitor's busy universe, there's still no place like home. (ANDREW ADLER)
