I'll admit that I went to Wednesday's performance of Of Mythic Proportions hoping Kensington teenagers would explain the inexplicable - why it's easier to get a gun in their neighborhood than a job, why seven of their own squeezed into a Toyota Corolla at 10:30 on a recent school night eager to fight, why only four came home alive.
The timing of the show is eerie, since cast members knew the victims. But the Mariana Bracetti Academy Charter School students who turn harrowing reality into art aren't criminologists or social scientists.
Commanding the stage at the cozy Walking Fish Theatre on Frankford Avenue, the 13 students speak obliquely about violence and loudly about pride and pain. read more
