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Renegade’s ‘Bathtub Moby-Dick’ at FringeArts
Captain Ahab in South Philadelphia
Watching Ed Swidey as Captain Ahab in a South Philadelphia living room, I suddenly found myself fighting tears of recognition: Here was the father I never had, taking time to explain and illustrate for a child Melville's most famous masterpiece.
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Matthew Charman’s ‘The Machine’ in New York
Man vs. machine
The historic 1997 chess match between Russia’s Garry Kasparov and an IBM computer is the stuff that modern tragedy is made of: It involves a noble protagonist who, due to a tragic flaw (being human), suffers his downfall.
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6 minute read
‘In the Heights’ at the Walnut
Latins in Manhattan
In the Heights may bear a striking similarity to Fiddler on the Roof, but one of this musical’s strengths is its ability to echo universal themes and Broadway traditions at the same time that it celebrates Latin culture and music.
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"A Doll's House': the Geffers adaptation
Young Nora
This Doll's House is not a rewrite or a reinterpretation of the classic play. Rather, it's a one-hour introduction to the character who will grow up into the prototypical mother of women's liberation.
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"Ajax' (2nd review) and "Heart of a Revolution'
Two dangerous men
Tucked away in pockets of this year's FringeArts Festival are gems of historical and literary discovery— in this case, about Karl Marx's adultery and the ancient Greek warrior Ajax's savagery.
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6 minute read
Attis Theater's 'Ajax, the madness' at the Wilma (1st review)
The frenzy of war, then and now
In Ajax, the madness, Theodoros Terzopoulos strips down the Ajax legend from Homer's Iliad and the Sophocles tragedy to its barest essentials, probing the roots of violence that underlie war. For Philadelphia, it was a rare opportunity to experience first-rate experimental theater.
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8 minute read
'Paperback Dreadful' at FringeArts Festival
Beyond Goosebumps: R.L. Stine gets his just desserts
What American kid of the ‘90s wasn't captivated by R.L. Stine's spine-tingling Goosebumps books, with their monstrous apparitions and sinister wishes granted? This send-up of Stine ventures a step further to focus on the real traumas of childhood.
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3 minute read
Pig Iron's "Pay Up' at the FringeArts Festival (2nd review)
Pay Up again (for a show you've seen before)
Pig Iron's hilarious/heartbreaking exploration of how money affects us hasn't changed much since 2005. That's because, director Dan Rothenberg insists, things haven't changed much since then. I beg to disagree.
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4 minute read
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Jo StrÓ¸mgren Kompani's "The Society' at FringeArts
Beyond Monty Python
In barely an hour, director/choreographer Jo StrÓ¸mgren and his three gifted dancer/actors provide the most lucid, insightful— and funniest— overview of isolationism and global conflict that you're likely to find today.
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3 minute read
Tennessee Williams's "Two Character Play'
A great playwright's dismaying final chapter
The Two Character Play is an agonizing glimpse into the darkness of Tennessee Williams's soul in decline. And yet I can't get the image of the playwright's smiling face out of my mind.
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4 minute read