In Deana Barone’s solo show, she tells a non-linear, experimental, partially improvisational, and interactive story, breaking conventions and the fourth wall. She inhabits eccentric and poignant characters and explores growing up as a first-generation American in the Midwest educated in a religious enclave, with a mentally ill sister, an adorable mother, a sick brother, and a guru-like father who believes the bible is propaganda.
Latest review: "When you’re planning what to see at this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival, make sure not to miss Deana Barone’s “MetaFam” at the Flight Theatre (in the Complex). Barone’s “solo concoction” is a one-person show that is, by turns, hilarious, poignant and unflinchingly honest. The script is a comic gem filled with insights and vulnerability which completely involves the audience (and I do mean completely) in the memories of her eclectic family. By itself, it would be reason enough to recommend the show. But then there’s
