The Rhino in Winter
The Queen of Bakersfield & Other Tales of Dust & Moonlight
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Dolphinback Theatre Company’s artistic director KellyAnn Corcoran performs writer Greg Owens’s “loose collection of stories and songs [exploring] the well-mined world of trailer parks, beehive hairdos, and Elvis worship. To Owens’s credit, he also captures a far less discussed side of blue-collar life–its unwed mothers, suicidal depression, and diminishing job opportunities. But it’s very odd to see moments with the tang of truth side by side with scenes that are total bullshit,” says Reader critic Jack Helbig. Lunar Cabaret, 8 PM.
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Dolphinback Theatre Company’s production of Wallace Shawn’s one-man drama features Brad Light as an American beset by illness and conscience in a Latin American country. “The Fever is [an] angry, fanatical, . . . surprisingly sharp critique of privilege and class. . . . Brad Light . . . dives deep, performing Shawn’s monologue with such intensity that it’s impossible to take your eyes off him [as he] captures the anguish, disgust, guilt, and sputtering rage behind [the] words. And the effect is riveting,” says Reader critic Jack Helbig. Lunar Cabaret, 10 PM. Note: Tickets for both The Queen of Bakersfield & Other Tales of Dust & Moonlight and The Fever the same evening are $15 or “pay what you can.”
The Saint Ed theater company performs Harold Pinter’s early one-act about two hit men whiling away their time in idle conversation while awaiting orders. “Played well, The Dumb Waiter can nearly asphyxiate an audience with its excruciating hilarity. [But] Saint Ed’s hesitant production achieves the necessary suffocating suspense only in rare moments,” says Reader critic Justin Hayford. Live Bait Theater, 8 PM.
