Author Archive for Bob Verini
Fringe Reviews: Pool (No Water)
POOL (NO WATER), by Mark Ravenhill, directed by Dave Barton. I can heartily recommend “Pool (No Water)” as performed by Monkey Wrench Collective as one of the most bracing, involving, and elating theater experiences I’ve had all year. Too many dance-based pieces are self-indulgent or random, but in this case director Dave Barton and choreographer Lee [...]
Fringe Reviews: Tape
TAPE, by Stephen Belber, directed by Elissa Weinzimmer. Without question the best production of this 2000 perennial I’ve ever seen, out of 4-5 of them including the 2001 movie. Belber’s theme, which I take to be the disjunction between our image of our past life (the one that runs on a “tape” in our mind) [...]
Fringe Reviews: Mission to Mate
MISSION TO MATE, written and directed by Colin Mitchell. These three lightly interconnected one acts, each an unlikely confrontation of male and female strangers, feature the cheeky writing one would expect of Bitter Lemons’ blogger-in-chief, though he also reveals a pleasantly sentimental streak he might disavow if pressed. First a woman demands her virginity back [...]
Fringe Reviews: Ghost Light
GHOST LIGHT, by Dan Spurgeon, directed by John B. McCormick. We haven’t had a really eerie local stage thriller since Ken Sawyer’s “Dracula” a couple years back and “The Woman in Black” before that. While The Visceral Company’s effort doesn’t have the same literary pedigree, its full blackouts, Ouija board surprises, thumps in the night, [...]
