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Four people stand in a row onstage. A woman in a striped sweater and glasses is on the left. A woman in a green sweater is next to her on the right. The next woman is wearing a gray sweater and a red knit cap, clutching an old manual typewriter to her chest. A bald man stands at the right. The first two women and the man are all touching the woman in the red cap, as if asking her for something.

When a chair is a springboard

by Dmitry Samarov February 9, 2023February 9, 2023

Appropriation, wordplay, riffs on news headlines, improv skits, and a grab bag of absurdist tropes get thrown in a hat to very uneven ends in Curious Theatre Branch’s set of four half-hour plays responding to Caryl Churchill’s This Is a Chair. This Is Not a ChurchillThrough 2/25: Fri-Sat 8 PM, Facility Theatre, 1138 N. California, […]