The cast finds disarming poignancy in well-orchestrated absurdity.
The Passage Theatre makes an auspicious debut with its revival of Mickle Maher's deadly difficult 2003 play, a work so doggedly antitheatrical and conceptually absurd (like most of Maher's dizzying scripts) that it seems designed to fail. Twelve dubious superheroes, with names like the Intoxicator, Fragrance Fellow, Memory Lass, and the Untangler, have apparently saved Fathomtown from archnemesis Professor Cannibal (his capture took 400 years) and are now in the midst of mounting a celebratory production of Shakespeare's The Tempest.…
The cast finds disarming poignancy in well-orchestrated absurdity.
The Passage Theatre makes an auspicious debut with its revival of Mickle Maher's deadly difficult 2003 play, a work so doggedly antitheatrical and conceptually absurd (like most of Maher's dizzying scripts) that it seems designed to fail. Twelve dubious superheroes, with names like the Intoxicator, Fragrance Fellow, Memory Lass, and the Untangler, have apparently saved Fathomtown from archnemesis Professor Cannibal (his capture took 400 years) and are now in the midst of mounting a celebratory production of Shakespeare's The Tempest.…