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If Springsteen's The Rising brought hope of a post-9/11 culture that has more
to offer than Alan Jackson songs, this decidedly amateurish deconstruction
of our paranoia just killed it. Jack (Andrew Farrar), a worker at an outfit
called Potatoes by the Pound, suspects his colleague Rahi of terrorizing the
world through its spud supply. Jack recruits an eccentric Miami Vice fan as
a P.I. (an engaging Daniel Cawfield), and we're asked to laugh at his silly
obsession and mourn his deteriorating marriage and sanity. Had this piece
played with our insecurities, arousing our suspicions along with Jack's, it
might have justified its existence. Instead, it is an exercise for the
author alone that neither says something new nor better says what already
has been. Infuriatingly, the only things author Larah Bross, who also plays
Jack's wife, says are mangled lines (she wrote the script!) and
"bye-knock-you-lars," over and over again. -- JADA YUAN
Untimely Ripped Entertainment
Written by Larah Bross; directed by Sam Riley.
Where:
Mazer Theater, 197 East Broadway
When:
8/14 at 10, 8/15 at 7:30, 8/17 at noon, 8/18 at
3:30.
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