Get the Grift
Local playwright Eve Edelson gives us a look at Nigerian scammers and the online pranksters who revel in wasting their time. My review is on KQED Arts.
Zip It, Gumshoe
A Killer Story is a strange case. It has the trappings of a hardboiled detective yarn, but instead of snappy dialogue what you have is competing, overlapping monologues that are less about the case in question than the idea of the case—or rather the idea of detective work in general. Our gumshoe’s not big on details. It’s a show at the Marsh Berkeley, a hub for solo theater pieces, but this one’s a play written for a cast of three, even if they all tell their separate versions of the same story as if they’re performing three solo shows at the same time.
