The SunBreak: Charles Smith’s “My Arm Is Up in the Air” at OtB

My Arm is one of those performances that defies easy explanation. It's a circuitous web of language and ideas, sudden sharp turns, and screeching halts. There's a take on a high school valedictory speech that's so funny I almost inhaled my cough drop; a pair of former child actors; a Robert Frost poem; and a bizarre boat tour, all interspersed with video and live music performed by Smith on a hammered dulcimer, an autoharp, and a bowed psaltery. (more)