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Abducted
Action!
Asian for Dummies
Ball and Daisy Chain
Can You See Me?
Certain Things...
Chinese Clown Cabaret
Cincinatti
Come Fly With Me Nude
Comedy on the Square
divagation
Faker
Flame and the Stone
Flower Murderer
Framework
Future Folkloric
Hollywoodland
Home/Darkness
Hooray for Speech...
It's Stupid to Steal...
Late Night With God
Long-Form Improv &...
m.i. blue's TWILITE...
Magic @ the Fringe
Moliere Than Thou
nEO-sURREALISTS Present
Other American Stories
Oui Be Negroes
PAIN
Quarter Into It
Rabbit Causes Dog
Rap Canterbury Tales
Reframing the Hourglass
Short and Sweet...
some life
Subhuman-True Tales...
This Love Train...
Thrilling Adventures...
Tonight: The Harsh …
Under the Counter...
Viva Karaoke!...
Viva Vivi
Wrestling an Alligator
Young War
Zeppelin Beach Improv

Play: Other American Stories
Reviewer: Contra Costa Times
Reviewer Email: steve@maller.com
Rating: 5 Stars
Please see http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/9658825.htm?1c for a review of Other American Stories in the Contra Costa Times!

"At the Fringe Festival, featuring more than 40 productions at 10 different venues, one of many highlights is Doreen Maller's "Other American Stories," billed as "short stories for the stage." The pieces, "Lego Towers," which she performed last weekend; and "The Eternal Light," which plays Thursday through Saturday in the Marsh, 1062 Valencia St., are staged-reading/theater-style pieces.

"Lego Towers" is a wide-ranging mother's tale of dealing with life in the post-9/11 era. It is a delightful rambling piece that plays off a tall Lego model of the two World Trade Center towers she discovered one of her children had made and left, for some time, in the living room of the home she shares with her husband and family.

The piece is as much read as it is acted, but since it was developed as a performance piece, Maller has structured her words to be pleasing to the ear, in a plain-spoken sort of prose that, in the end, sneaks up on you as something surprisingly eloquent.

Maller hauls down the mommy track at breathtaking speed, never faltering, and showing a keen appreciation for the spoken word and an uncanny knack for low-key performance that makes her shows well worth seeing." -- Pat Craig, Contra Costa Times