Monday, August 18, 2003

 
THEATER REVIEW: EVA (2003) no stars (0 stars out of 4).
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Part of the NYC International Fringe Festival, going on now through August 24th, Eva seems exactly like those terrible, terrible experimental theater productions that people are always going to on TV or in the movies. That sort of "crazy" show is par for the course at the Fringe Festival, but they're also supposed to be good and interesting, and not just weird. Five minutes of it, as a parody of the sort of crazy experimental show that it actually is would have been brilliant; but enduring it for an hour certainly does not work as a parody of itself, nor on any other level.

The show consists of two, nearly-motionless women, each representing half of Eva Braun's inner dialogue in her last moments alive, bleating out pseudo-intellectual aphorisms in a trance-like monotone, occasionally punctuated by loud chimes or alarm bells, presumably to keep patrons awake. "Where is the chair?" "There is no chair." "I am behind the chair, which does not exist." It doesn't get any deeper than that, and believe me, I am not taking that out of context.

I can't imagine why this show was made in the first place. It could only have seemed acceptable to its creators in the same way that people don't seem to mind the smell of their own farts.

This is The Official Record. 12:24 PM
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