The On-and-Off Sparks of The Keep Going Songs

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Photo: Jeremy Daniel There's a long section in the final third of The Keep Going Songs that comes together to feel really transcendent. The show is by the Bengsons - the real-life couple Abigail and Shaun Bengson, who perform together as a band and create works of music-driven theater - and in this patiently ascending movement, a song in praise of the humble earthworm moves into an extended, gorgeous looping suite. Alejandro Fajardo's lights glisten and eddy in oceanic hues; the Bengsons' playing becomes more and more abstract and ambient, and in what is unquestionably the most . . .

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