Frank is a joy to watch in her piece "Trying Guilt". She has the demeanor akin to comic greats like Catherine O'hara of Second City fame. Her mime and character work is also superb. This one woman show is funny and quite beautifully frightening. Jones' script about the inmate on death row shows that even killers are a fold in our cultural fabric. I found that part of the piece most fascinating. Produced by CultureMesh collective, this show seems to be a true collaborative work and a real product of it's organization. The music also worked well and the piece was very stylized. At times, the script seemed to overdo the racial blunders bit as this seemed to be almost a third of the show. Only towards the end of the piece did I catch on that all the characters were in one play and that this was not a series of vignettes; however, the shoes did help me keep things in line. I enjoyed this piece very much and give it a four out of five.
I like that the title is called "Trying Guilt". I found the multiplicity of meaning in "trying" as in testing something out for the first time and also "trying" as difficult and also "trying" as in a jury trial.
Reviewed by: Cody
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