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Fringe Festival: Pig Iron’s ‘99 Breakups’ (third review)
Not just romantic breakups
The performances of 99 Breakups, some more inscrutable than others, have a few verbal and physical gems, but aren’t exactly revelations on human nature.
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4 minute read
Fringe Festival: Idiopathic Ridiculopathy’s ‘Rhinoceros’
Absurd is the new normal
Ionesco was prescient: In today’s weird and wild world, a lot of us are surrendering to the notion of life without inherent meaning or order.
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4 minute read
Fringe Festival: New Paradise Laboratories’ ‘The Adults’ (second review)
A deflated balloon
The adroit cast of The Adults takes ideas from a great play by Chekhov and contorts them into a mannered exhibition of body movements.
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1 minute read
'If/Then' on Broadway
Chances and choices
In If/Then, after two acts and 22 songs, Idina Menzel’s character (both of them) realizes that life just keeps happening: a cascade of choices and chances, paths pursued and paths ignored. You can’t ever know what will happen next.
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6 minute read
'Book of Mormon' at the Forrest (fourth review)
The power of theater compels you . . .
F-bombs and crude jokes and satire, oh my! The Book of Mormon made my mother laugh and want to see other shows she normally wouldn’t. Theater is powerful stuff.
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3 minute read
Fringe Festival: 1812 Productions’ ‘Intimate Exchanges’
Exploring the consequences of choice
Intimate Exchanges is a comedy of ambitious conceptualization and modest execution that is reminiscent of these quiet but literate British sitcoms that frequently show up on PBS.
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2 minute read
Fringe Festival: New Paradise Laboratories’ ‘The Adults’
A masterwork of unease
New Paradise Laboratories’ Fringe show, The Adults, is a play for those who like their drunken pratfalls freighted with metaphysical anxiety.
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3 minute read
Fringe Festival: ‘99 Breakups’ and ‘Theorem’
Ensemble energy sparks FringeArts
Two Fringe performances in nontraditional venues showcase the power of talented ensembles.
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5 minute read
Fringe Festival: Pig Iron’s ‘99 Breakups’ (second review)
Choreographing an emotional minefield
People behave in particular ways in a museum; everything is hushed — but not when Pig Iron sets its performance inside one.
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3 minute read
Fringe Festival: Pig Iron’s ‘99 Breakups’
Painful Breakups
None of the moments in 99 Breakups was connected with any other, and all lacked subtext, subtlety, or any larger meaning.
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3 minute read