This show uses "clown" as a verb and "club" as a weapon -- to pummel the audience into gleeful submission with a deft mixture of fun, energy, and (as the curtain comes down) surprising poignance. ...
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Andre Gide said : The role of the artist is to disturb.
This is a disturbing play. And fucking brilliant.
Yeah, this remarkable one-person conception by Stefan Marks is perfectly titled (though you won't understand why until the final few minutes), and flawlessly rendered in various (beautifully-choreographed) tonal modes. Part meta-theater, part autobiography, all amazing, you've got to see it. ...
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This play is dynamite! Like a shotgun wedding of Anthony Shaffer's SLEUTH and one of Edward Albee's latter-day absurdist parables, PARLOUR GAMES is a deep-dive into the dynamics of a psychologically-bent family legacy, and its 55-minute running time reps a perfect power-to-weight ratio (vis-a-vis its effectiveness for an audience). ...
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