The Red Room
85 E 4th St
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Theatre
Dysfunctional Theatre Classics presents A Voluminous Evening of Brevity
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A Voluminous Evening of Brevity
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Mar 22, 2010 – Mar 31, 2010
Mondays–Wednesdays (8–9:15pm)
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- Price
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$12
“It's too bad that Dysfunctional's enjoyable Voluminous Evening is so brief. The one-acters by F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Butler Yeats, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Susan Glaspell are about making mistakes both big and small. Running no longer than 15-20 minutes apiece, these four playlets are complete narratives acted with great care and pacing. While the work of a Nobel Laureate, a Pulitzer-winning poetess, and chronicler of The Jazz Age are wonderful, it is the lesser-known Glaspell's 1916 Trifels that is the evening's highlight. Millay's contemporary and a Pulitzer winner herself, Glaspell uses an ambiguous crime scene to thoroughly contrast the differences in male and female perception.”
Patricia Contino, Flavorpill
The Red Room Says:
A VOLUMINOUS EVENING OF BREVITY is an evening of short plays both comic and tragic dating to the beginning of the 20th Century. Dysfunctional Theatre Classics’ mission is to produce underperformed scripts from the previous centuries or to give a new take on “classic” plays of past centuries. All of these works are still considered Dysfunctional; the idea is to encourage the audience to perceive them in a new light and to realize that dysfunction isn’t a product of 21st or even 20th century life; it’s a product of the human condition.
