Harker Jones – BroadwayWorld
Bernardo Cubría’s world premiere CRABS IN A BUCKET: OR HOW BITTERNESS RUINED THE FUN is a riotous satire of small minds divided by envy. Focused on literal crabs in a shucking bucket, the crabbiest crab, Amargo (Xochitl Romero), and daffy sidekick Pootz, (Anna Lamadrid), spend their days bitching about the crabs that managed to get away, out of the pail, to freedom, including legendary Mamon (Michael Sturgis). When Beb (Jordan Hull) makes her way into the bucket, they upend the status quo, challenging Amargo’s order. Read more…
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw
If you check out “crab mentality” in a psychology text, you’ll find it refers to the tendency of some members in a group to resent, then undermine, the progress of their fellows. The idea stems from a phenomenon in nature whereby crabs in a bucket will grab onto each other and appear to impede the efforts of any other crab to get to the top. (In fact, the behavior is a survival mechanism, a holdover from former days in the ocean or other wild waters, where clinging to a fellow crab could keep one from being swept away.) Read more…