Might As Well Live: Stories by Dorothy Parker

ten forty-two productions · Ages 13+ · United States of America

world premiere
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Review by WESLEY BURGER

June 16, 2015
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My overall impression

Wry, full of heart, and well paced, Might as Well Live is exactly why festivals like Fringe should exist. This is not something you will see anywhere else and it must be experienced as a play. In a series of short scenes, we get very human glimpses into the lives of these Parker characters. Each vignette is by turns laugh-out-loud funny, uncomfortably real, and pitch perfect pithy Parker. The overall feel can be a bit jarring or uneven, if only because the audience wants to spend more than an hour getting to know these people and their stories. Great cast, good writing (unless you really don’t like Parker), and a spare production that conveys the period through costume and small props without getting carried away.

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