Resonance Review

 A prize among 805-generated cultural projects under the pandemic’s oppressive rule, the Marjorie Luke Theater’s “Virtual Concert Series,” beautifully produced onstage and in the empty theater, opened in September with a display of the power of one, being singer-songwriter-instrumentalist known as Mendeleyev. For episode two, the point of focus broadened out into the power of many—and of the power of community–with the adventurous yet soothing mosaic production called “Resonance.” 

 Neatly folded into a tapestry of just under an hour, the program gamely blends music, spoken word and a snippet of theater (fittingly, given the show’s communal ethos, the “stage manager monologue” from Thornton Wilder’s Our Town). Premiering on October 17, the show has now extended into its open-ended cyber-afterlife, available in the renewable now link. Show/series producer Rod Lathim suggested that the concept seemed “a perfect antidote to the challenging world in which we are living.”