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'The Worst Show In The Fringe' EastOfIndy.com review
8/26/09
EastOfIndy.com
by John Belden
Look at it this way: the title sets the bar so low that if it's entertaining
at all, it's good. Fortunately this comic play by Merely Players did not
live up (or down) to its name. In this three-man farce, a Fringe Festival
playwright/performer responds to the savaging of his work "E-Mails with
Shakespeare" (to which the title of the play applies) by kidnapping the
critic and tying him to a chair in his barren apartment. Why this apartment
is barren only adds to the comic absurdity that follows, especially when a
furniture mover shows up to repossess the chair the critic is tied to and
the pillow stuffed over his head. Eventually each of the three will be tied
to the chair, an intellectual flaw in the critic is exposed (to the
playwright's joy) and a means is found to stage the man's next performance.
I attended a performance with an audience made almost entirely of Fringe
performers and members of the central Indiana theatre community. The empathy
was almost tangible, and needless to say all had a great time at this.
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