Sarina in Red

Linus Gelber

Flash Flash Bang Boom is a new play by the Circle Theater of New York. It's a consideration of relationships and sex, played out among three young couples who meet casually and then move forward in several very different ways. Two of the three manage to pass through infatuation, desire, love, desperation, sorrow, and separation in the course of the show; the last pair, who are slower movers and a little less sure of the will of their bodies, is still falling together at the evening's end, as the others are falling apart. Make of that what you will.

I go to see my friend Tess, who is not one of the slower movers, perform in the show, and in the course of a lively post-show hang with the company, we set up a photo shoot the following afternoon.

Also not a slower mover is Sarina, above, an angry siren who faces off with her man across an interrogation table midway through the production. The two, lit by a bare incandescent bulb above them, arrive in spy-fashion black coats; as their confrontation progresses, they shed their outer garb for more intimate discoveries.

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