What We Do to Survive: The Runaway Wife
Elizabeth Birkelund’s The Runaway Wife is an unusual little tome about the joys of individualism and independence as much as it is about the things we sometimes think we must sacrifice to maintain the status quo. The titular wife is not the main character, but it is her disappearance into the Swiss Alps that catalyzes […]
The BFG – A Whizzpopping Good Time
It stands for “Big Friendly Giant,” and though he’s older than history can tell, this is the only name he has. The redundant nomenclature is care of an insomniac orphan who sees something she isn’t meant to see and that changes her life — and the world. On the surface The BFG is a simple […]
The Flying Doctor: Over and Over and Over the Moon
In a back room of a small Chinatown gallery, a cadre of charismatic performers use the 90 minutes at their command to create a kinetic spectacle full of humor, music and feeling. The FlexCo production of The Flying Doctor, herein subtitled “Over and Over and Over,” is a raucous and, in the end, surprisingly melancholy […]
A Play on Words: Suddenly, A Knock on the Door
Based on Etgar Keret’s 2012 book of the same name, Suddenly, A Knock on the Door is a fast-paced work comprising several stories glued together by an unlikely standoff between a flustered writer in his home and the armed invaders who, like his little son, just want him to tell them a story. The book […]