It was a full house at the last showing of “Mad Madge and Her Blazing World” on Sunday, October 28 at the Experimental Media Performance Lab. The two-hour performance consisted of only eight actors who each played dozens of characters, from English royalty to French citizens to talking animals. Adapted and directed by Annie Loui and performed by Counterbalance Theater, “Mad Madge” is based on the novel “Margaret the First” by Danielle Dutton.
To the untrained ear, identifying and appreciating the individual components of a layered piece of music is no small task, but UCI’s Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology (ICIT) Concert’s bare-bones stage in the Experimental Media Performance Lab made the intricacies of the individual hard to miss.
