A solo piece many years in the making, Surviving Twin is a "posthumous collaboration” in which Grammy-winning singer Loudon Wainwright III combines and connects some of his songs with the writings of his late father, the esteemed Life Magazine columnist Loudon Wainwright Jr. "This stabbingly funny, deeply moving piece," as the Los Angeles Times called it, is part concert, part dramatic performance, and part family slide-show—a theatrical hybrid consisting of music, stories, and short films that spans and celebrates four generations of the Wainwright clan.
PRAISE FOR LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III’S SURVIVING TWIN
Wise and witty, funny and sad, Surviving Twin is an inspired investigation into the complicated, conflicted relationships between fathers and sons.
*****( 5 stars)- London Evening Standard
… extraordinary and wildly original, a hybrid of songs, spoken-word, solo theatre , and home movie footage.
-The Times (London)
Wainwright is unsparing, on himself and the others he references in this stabbingly funny, deeply moving piece.
- Los Angeles Times
“Surviving Twin,” a bristling, acerbic, ultimately affecting family album of a show …
- New York Times
“Surviving Twin” displays a moving love and respect, tinged with sharp-edged observations, from one generation for another. Alternately poignant and bittersweet (it) is both a moving homage and a pointed musical meditation on the complexities of familial relationships.
- The Hollywood Reporter
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