Barbara and the Camp Dogs
Belvoir Upstairs Theatre
Writers: Ursula Yovich and Alana Valentine
Director: Leticia Cáceres
April 5-28, 2019
The rock-fueled box office sensation Barbara and the Camp Dogs is back at the Belvoir.
While a more detailed response can be found here, special praise should go to Ursula Yovich’s understudy, the astonishing Shakira Clanton. Not only did the dynamic Shakira learn all of her lines in six days but also she made the originally autobiographical and demanding role fully her own. She struts provocatively, she looks at us or her sister, René (the deeply moving Elaine Crombie), with a mixture of flamboyance and innocence, while making utterly outrageous remarks, and she crumples with self-hate and despair as she fails those she loves.
If you haven’t seen Barbara then grab the chance to experience a unique theatre performance, and if you’ve seen it, see it again, as the second time around is just as thrilling.
