"I'm not going home. I'm going on," may be the final revelation in R. Ernie Silva's one-man show, "Heavy Like the Weight of a Flame," but to really understand the emotional struggles and self-reflection this actor faced in creating this piece, you would have to have witnessed his recent four-day run at La Mama in New York's East Village. The story, aside from a few theatrical embellishments, is not only an excellent staged piece. It is a retelling of Silva's first twenty-some years of life, told by a man a decade wiser, a decade more refined. We all have coming-of-age stories. As we grow older, we tend to mythologize them. For many of us, it meant graduating high school into college into the workforce -- a straight trajectory with variation only within the structure. Then there are the mythologies of men...
- 2/15/2010
- by Derek Beres
- Huffington Post
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