Now that I am an usher about town, I feel it my duty to give you a heads up -
sort of like a personal shopper might steer you away from a bad fashion
decision.
Playwright's Horizon - "Recent Tragic Events"
Don't even think about it - unless bad writng, bad acting and the lack of a believable
story appeal to you. This is a play about a woman in St. Louis who thinks her twin
sister might have been in the World Trade Center. Date 9-12-2001. But the
worried sister is able to carry on a blind date and invite neighbors over to play a
mysterious card game that seems to involve charades. In between these moments
she answers the phone and always takes it into the bathroom or the bedroom -
offstage.
If that is not enough, just know that Joyce Carol Oates appears in the second act in
the form of a sock puppet run by a woman wearing a black t-shirt and nothing else.
We know this because we saw the nothing else part. Other than her stint as
puppeteer this actor is mute while she eats pizza and drinks beer.
Second Stage - "Living Out" by Lisa Loomer
You can skip the first act and go at intermission because nothing happens in the
first act. It's about the separate lives led by a young white mother and her Hispanic
Nanny. Duh. The second act should keep you awake. Sort of El Norte meets the
Nanny Diaries.
Yours in Public Service -
tulis
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