Kai Young’s fights are fun, imaginative, and as quick as the dialogue. Whether an actor is losing a fight to a hand puppet, or using a fellow actor (or a wall) to execute stylistic moves similar to those seen in the original version of The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, it looks believable enough for the occasional wince or gasp from the audience during particularly intricate fight scenes. During the opening night performance actress Hilary Griffin, whose white tights don’t allow room for kneepads, finished one of the major battles and then continued the rest of the show while bleeding from both of her knees without missing a beat.
The only blatant issue, a design element, was the haze machine that in this writer’s opinion went overboard, making it hard to see a very touching moment. Because it smoked out the moment we’d all been waiting for it wasn’t as climatic as we’d hoped it would be, but it was still somewhat effective as we could make out some silhouettes of actors and were still able to hear the lines.
