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Thaddeus Phillips's "¡El Conquistador!' at the Fringe (1st review)
Charlie Chaplin reinvented
The wildly crafty Thaddeus Philips continues his quest to mine the eccentricities of international culture, this time as a Bogota doorman fantasizing a career as a telenovela star. Rarely has political humor been hitched to theatrical imagination so effectively.
¡El Conquistador! By Tatiana Mallarino and Thaddeus Phillips in collaboration with Victor Mallarino; Phillips directed. Lucidity Suitcase production for Fringe Festival, September 8-11, 2010 at Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 S. Broad St. (at Lombard). www.livearts-fringe.org/details.cfm?id=12723.
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"Madwoman of Chaillot' (1st review) and "Marat/Sade' (3rd review) at
Blessings of adversity
Many Philadelphia theater companies suffer from budget constraints. But two of them consistently turn these conditions to their advantage, as these two Fringe festival productions amply demonstrate.
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Hollinger's "Ghost-Writer' at the Arden (1st review)
The music of the typewriter
Michael Hollinger's drama about a novelist, his typist and his wife creates characters with whom we can empathize, and whose fates we actually care about.
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Theatre Exile's "Iron' at the Fringe (2nd review)
Like watching real people
Rona Munro's drama about a series of visits between an imprisoned mother and her grown daughter is deeply nuanced, gradually revealing more about each woman while the audience sits in judgment, like a jury.
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Theatre Exile's "Iron' at the Fringe (1st review)
No place to hide
In Theatre Exile's production of Rona Munro's Iron, the stunning proximity of a converted South Philadelphia garage allows the audience to peer voyeuristically into the psychological dissection that occurs onstage.
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"Cankerblossom' and "Sanctuary' at the Fringe
Coasting on laurels
In their current Cankerblossom and Sanctuary, respectively, neither the highly regarded Pig Iron Theatre Co. nor Brian Sanders's Junk achieved anything worthy of anyone's time or money.
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EgoPo's "Marat/Sade' (2nd review)
A setting that could drive you crazy
I've always dreamed of seeing Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade performed live, on stage. Why, then, did I leave at the intermission?
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EgoPo's "Marat/Sade' (1st review)
So you want real theater?
Taking up where it left off with last season's Beckett Festival, EgoPo once again thumbs its nose at Philadelphia's conservative theater scene with Marat / Sade. Crash-land this cruel concoction in the enormous Sanctuary space at the Rotunda Theater and you just might find the year's most terribly satisfying theater pleasure.
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"Portmanteau' at the Fringe Festival
Choose your ideological baggage (before it chooses you)
The Applied Mechanics troupe typically encourages audience members to follow its characters. In the fascinating and intelligent Portmanteau, whom you choose to follow says something about your ideological leanings.
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"Freedom Club' at the Fringe (2nd review)
Assassins, past and future
Adriano Shaplin's Freedom Club attempts to link John Wilkes Booth's assassination of Lincoln in 1865 with a radical leftist commune's plot against a president 150 years later. It's an intriguing idea that misses the mark.
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