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American Appetite: Tales of Dirty Young Boys & Spry Old Men, The
An Evening At Home
Anablep and Other Oddities
Back to Kroenig
Beckett's Last Dance
Beneath Sita's Belly
Black Box Confessions
Blue Sofa
Candistan
Caught Sleeping
Cleopatra!-And Antony
ClockBusters
Death Blow - The Show
Devouring Time
Engineer and The Artist, The
Enronicles
Exit Laughing!
F--king Handicapped Guy
Fred Anderson -Professional Goofball!
Full Spectrum Improvisation
George Bush's Nuts
Getting It Wrong
Guano dell' Amore - ("Birdshit of Love")
Gulag Ha Ha
Interactive Solo Performer Daniel Packard
Ken and Andy Show, The
Lillie, A Musical
Looking, Then Pointing
Mad Adventures of Chaos For Hire, The
Me Laugh You Long Time
Menopause and Desire: Or Why Must I Be Middle Aged and In Love?
Microclimates: A Crime Against Gravity or The Burrito From Sausalito
My Son, the Mummy: Episode Pi
nEO-sURREALIST sYSTEMS pRESENTS: HOE- DOWN!!!!!
Objects In Mirror (May Be Closer Than They Appear)
OUTTAKES: Monologues, Stories, and Social Commentary
Rise And Fall of The US/them Empire, The
Smashing Icons
Something You Might Want
Song in Your Blood, The
Spray
Stranger In Woodstock
Surfing Toasters
Survival of the Fit Enough/ Fern
Talking To Myself
Tangled
Uncle Jacques' Symphony
Underground Movement Theatre
Upper Canada Cougar Movement, The
Valentine's Play Time
Way Light Strikes Filled Mason Jars, The
Winterkill
Woods For The Trees
Zucchini: The Forbidden Dance!

Play: Beneath Sita's Belly
Reviewer: Steven Keena
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Rating: 4 Stars
The Wierd Sisters deliver a fine staging of The Ramayana. Songs, shadow puppets and live action combine to work a magical performance.

Play: Beneath Sita's Belly
Reviewer: Frawst
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Rating: 3 Stars
Hanuman was fantastic.
There were a variety of technical glitches that slowed down the pace, and were frustrating the performers.

Stylistically it hasn't all meshed yet. The performers are very capable, and the methods of story telling WILL work, they just didn't for me last night.

Do give it a try. It was interesting last night and will only get better.

Play: Beneath Sita's Belly
Reviewer: Vince Vitale
Reviewer Email: WorldGazer@aol.com
Rating: 3 Stars
Beginning and ending with a taped reading from the Hindu epic, The Ramayana, telling the compelling story of the abduction of Sita by Rawana, the Demon King, "Beneath Sita's Belly" fills in the period of the long captivity of Sita in the Demon King's garden. Too many elements were left unexplained (including the title) for me to feel the significance of the captivity, especially her husband's absence from the story, the Demon King's absence during most of the long captivity, leaving me with no sense of morale in what I had assumed was a classic Hindu morality play. Jane Chen as Hanuman, the Monkey Messenger, gives a competent performance of well-formed dialogue lines for this fable, and her song adds a pleasant touch. The shadow light puppetry by Janaki Ranpura is intriguing with its well-created figures, but the spell seemed broken by the addition of cartoon-like exclamation words, like "Bam!" Unfortunately, I left feeling the promise of a modern telling of a classic Hind!
u story had not met its expectation.