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"Madwoman of Chaillot' (2nd review)
The wrong box for Giraudoux
Was The Madwoman of Chaillot a swipe at France's Nazi occupiers? Only in retrospect. Let's lay this myth to rest and consider the play's other virtues.
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"Curtains' at the Walnut
Overlooked, and rightly so
Eschewing the sure-fire opportunities of Broadway hits classics is a brave and welcome change of pace by the Walnut. Unfortunately, Curtains is contrived and uninvolving— a weak example of its creators' talents.
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"Cuckoo's Nest' at People's Light
Chief Bromden, front and center again
William Zielinski and Marcia Saunders make fine sparring partners as McMurphy and Nurse Ratched in the stage adaptation of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the season opener at People's Light.
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Thaddeus Phillips's "¡El Conquistador!' at the Fringe (2nd review)
How do you say klutz in Spansh?
¡El Conquistador! was a triumphant comic thriller, the most effective work yet from Thaddeus Phillips and his creative company.
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"Putnam County Spelling Bee' in Norristown
The insecurity Olympics
This engaging musical comedy explores childhood and adolescence through the sweet and funny prism of school spelling competitions. In some respects the new Theatre Horizon production is the best version yet.
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Tribe of Fools' "Dracula' at the Fringe
I alone (and everyone else) survived: The true terror of the Fringe Festival
For all their bragging about bringing the ultimate scare-fest to the stage, Tribe of Fools' Dracula was mostly a marketing gimmick. It did, however, force me to think about the times in my life when I've been truly terrified in a theater— like finding myself empathizing with a pedophile, or being urged to go onstage.
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Thaddeus Phillips's "¡El Conquistador!' at the Fringe (1st review)
Charlie Chaplin reinvented
The wildly crafty Thaddeus Philips continues his quest to mine the eccentricities of international culture, this time as a Bogota doorman fantasizing a career as a telenovela star. Rarely has political humor been hitched to theatrical imagination so effectively.
¡El Conquistador! By Tatiana Mallarino and Thaddeus Phillips in collaboration with Victor Mallarino; Phillips directed. Lucidity Suitcase production for Fringe Festival, September 8-11, 2010 at Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 S. Broad St. (at Lombard). www.livearts-fringe.org/details.cfm?id=12723.
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"Madwoman of Chaillot' (1st review) and "Marat/Sade' (3rd review) at
Blessings of adversity
Many Philadelphia theater companies suffer from budget constraints. But two of them consistently turn these conditions to their advantage, as these two Fringe festival productions amply demonstrate.
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Hollinger's "Ghost-Writer' at the Arden (1st review)
The music of the typewriter
Michael Hollinger's drama about a novelist, his typist and his wife creates characters with whom we can empathize, and whose fates we actually care about.
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Theatre Exile's "Iron' at the Fringe (2nd review)
Like watching real people
Rona Munro's drama about a series of visits between an imprisoned mother and her grown daughter is deeply nuanced, gradually revealing more about each woman while the audience sits in judgment, like a jury.
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