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Pisoni's "Humor Abuse' at PTC (1st review)
Son of Pagliacci
To win the love of his clown father— as well as the audience— Lorenzo Pisoni drives his body through every pratfall in the standard clowning handbook. The result is exhausting.
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"Hermitage' at Philadelphia Fringe Festival
Life in an urban attic
New York's legendary Collyer brothers hoarded 180 tons of materials in their Harlem mansion by the time of their deaths in 1947. Frederick Anderson's Hermitage offers a sympathetic view of two men who withdraw psychologically as their urban neighborhood changes demographically.
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"Microworld(s)' and "Digital Effects' at Fringe Festival.
Solo acts: Micro to magic
In Microworld(s), the last resident of a Tokyo apartment tower provides a metaphor for the ways our humanity survives within modernity's inhuman structures. In Digital Effects Steve Cuiffo takes the magician's art into the post-modern realm.
Microworld(s), Part 1. Written and performed by Thaddeus Phillips. Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental production for Philadelphia Fringe Festival. September 4-19, 2009 at Painted Bride, 230 Vine St. (215) 413.9006 or www.pafringe.com/details.cfm?id=9067.
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"Annihilation Point' at Fringe Festival
The future is very funny
In The Annihilation Point, the lunatic crew from Time Mender productions offers a hectic array of fast-paced and unpredictable scenes of the future that generate almost continuous laughter.
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2 minute read
Daisey's 'Last Cargo Cult' at Live Arts Festival
Preaching to the choir
Mike Daisey's humorous monologues offer therapeutic relief to the lefty mainstream. But as a performance artist, he lacks the stagecraft or imaginative language of Spalding Gray.
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3 minute read
"small metal objects' at Live Arts Festival
Grasping at intimacy on a city street
small metal objects ingeniously invites us to eavesdrop on an intimate personal conversation in the context of a crowded urban street.
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2 minute read
Albee's "Zoo Story' at Villanova
The trouble with Edward Albee (and his characters, too)
Edward Albee's The Zoo Story may be historically important as the moment when American theater began to come out of the closet, but the play itself is dated, and difficult to perform convincingly unless played against the grain. In Joanna Rotté's spacious direction, it reveals some forgotten strengths, but also exposes inherent weaknesses.
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Whit MacLaughlin's "Fatebook' at Live Arts Festival (2nd review)
Theater of the future
I approached Fatebook's pre-production preparation with a degree of curmudgeonly skepticism. But I must admit: This show's fashioning of original art out of the newest social media modes of communication is a groundbreaking step into a theater of the future.
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Gombrowicz's "Operetta' at Live Arts Festival (2nd review)
1960s Polish bombast
This relic of the Soviet bloc seeks to detonate all ideologies, with uneven results for a contemporary audience that rarely sees such anarchic bombast on stage.
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"Nathan the Wise' at People's Light (1st review)
A distant mirror in the Middle East
A modern translation of Gotthold Lessing's Nathan the Wise, an 18th-Century German fable about religious tolerance, receives a charming production at People's Light, with the noted stage and screen actor David Strathairn in the title role.
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