Don’t Cockpunch the Messenger
“The god came back. Shortly afterward, the world ended.” That’s what Lauren Spencer tells us as the narrator and sometime bartender in Hermes, a new play playing at the Exit Theater in a No Nude Men production directed by Sleepwalkers Theatre artistic director Tore Ingersoll-Thorp. Spencer says this several times, in fact, handling the poetic repetition with grace and sparkling intelligence.
Till the End of the World
Sleepwalkers Theatre is devoting its whole season to the world premiere of This World and After, a trilogy by East Bay playwright J.C. Lee that takes place before and after an impending apocalypse. You wouldn’t know catastrophe’s a-coming from the first installment in the trilogy, This World Is Good, which Sleepwalkers is currently performing at San Francisco’s small Phoenix Theatre in the heart of the theatre district.
