Dont Be Absurd
The Cutting Ball Theater is big on the avant-garde classics, and now it unveils a new translation of Eugène Ionesco’s The Chairs that can be hard to sit through. My review‘s in today’s Marin Independent Journal.
These Are the People in Your Neighborhood
As company-in-residence at Exit on Taylor, the avant-garde Cutting Ball Theater strikes an odd contrast with the Tenderloin District right outside its doors. Inside, challenging works by Ionesco, Beckett or Will Eno may compete with the hollering of heavily lubricated voices outside, and walking down the street to BART or one’s car from the show can be an obstacle course of homeless people, drug dealers and their customers.
Well Hello, Dali
I’ve had to take a break from the blog the last couple of weeks for a wide assortment of reasons, but I do have a review in today’s Marin Independent Journal, of AlterTheater’s production of Jose Rivera’s References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot.
