59E59 Theaters
59 E 59th St
212.279.4200
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A Play on Words
- When
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May 13, 2009 – May 30, 2009
Tuesdays (7:30pm)
Wednesdays–Saturdays (8:30pm)
Sundays (3:30pm)
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- Price
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$18
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True to its title, Brian Dykstra's A Play on Words is an English major's idea of non-stop fun. A Play on Words (produced by Ithaca's Kitchen Theatre Company and part of 59E59's Americas Off Broadway series) engages two long-time dorky friends in a bout of rhetorical fencing where every word is parsed to its fullest and colloquialisms are dissected under a linguistic microscope. It manages to be both high-brow and low-brow — and thoroughly entertaining — yet underneath all the semantic and etymological arguments lies a thoughtful examination of how language both succeeds and fails as a means of communication.
