Jyl Kaneshiro – San Diego Story

Players One-Up Playwright in an Intense ‘Gidion’s Knot’

By Martin Jones Westlin | May 31, 2017 |

Young Gidion’s death by hanging is a loss from which his mom will never recover — and in Innermission Productions’ good
‘Gidion’s Knot,’ educational protocol is as much the culprit as anything.

Circle’s earnest “2.0” has the community, and military life, in its sights

By Martin Jones Westlin | February 4, 2014 |

Maybe Circle Circle dot dot needs to get more specific in its references to the city it seeks to portray and reflect. Even so, its “San Diego, I Love You, 2.0” features two very good performances in this story about military life and a couple’s sacrifice within it. The scrappy company understands that theater is a terribly public act, and its site-specific approach isn’t lost on an art form that’s been embracing community-based performance forever.