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Along the Path of Larks and Swallows
Performer Mia Paschal gave her first Rogue performance last year with “This Lily was (Fontana).” That was a show I wasn’t really interested in seeing, but I happened to be at that venue at that time with no other plans, so I checked it out – and I was completely blown away. When I saw that she was back this year with “Along the Path of Larks and Swallows,” the show became one of my first priorities.
I feel at a loss to do her fantastic performance justice in a review, so I offer just these words: intense, deliberate, dreamy, poetic, rhythmic, entrancing, human in every sense imaginable, profound, and tornado (this last word her own, but a perfect descriptor). I even liked this show a little better than last year’s; I felt like it came together in a more relatable way (though last year’s was more edgy).
Give this one-woman show a try, but get there early – there were few (if any?) spare seats at her Saturday evening performance (the debut of the show). Remaining performances are being held at Dianna’s North on Sun 3/2 at 2:30, Fri 3/7 at 5:30, Sat 3/8 at 2:30, and Sat 3/8 at 8:30. An additional performance has been added at Starline on Sun 3/2 at 5:30.