Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

Frame of Mind

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpieces beg for prolonged study — but who’s looked past the dots to wonder if the dainty ladies picnicking in “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” are tired of holding their umbrellas, or how the pet monkey feels about its leash? Playwright Luigi Jannuzzi upends traditional art interpretation in Exhibit This! The Museum Comedies, in which famous works of art come alive in the manner of Night at the Museum. Marble sculptures, Seurat paintings and fertility gods from the Metropolitan Museum of Art converse, argue and try to escape in imaginative vignettes staged by the Little City Players. It’s a vision to behold.