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CLICK HERE FOR RECENT REVIEWS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER CLICK ON PLAY FOR AUDIENCE REVIEWS FOR THAT PLAY 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: Rabbit Causes Dog Reviewer: Ploo Reviewer Email: Rating: None Would have loved to have seen his play but the outgassing in the Jon Sims studio was so strong that my throat was burning within five minutes. I don't know if it was the mylar floor or maybe the wall hangings were dipped in a fire retardant but the smell was so strong I couldn't stay for the play. Now I'm a Midwesterner; smoke-free bars & scent-free zones are new to me; but I couldn't hack the smell. Bummer. Play: Rabbit Causes Dog Reviewer: Ben Eckstein Reviewer Email: beneckstein@hotmail.com Rating: 5 Stars It's been a week since I've seen this show and it's still on my mind! Great ensemble work, originality and precision come together to deliver surprise after surprise and the over all feeling is of sheer delight. Play: Rabbit Causes Dog Reviewer: Marissa Reviewer Email: Rating: 5 Stars A spectacular show! Their use of gesture, movement and sound is innovative and engaging. A powerful piece that haunts you after you've left the theater! THIS IS A MUST SEE!!!!!! Play: Rabbit Causes Dog Reviewer: heather Reviewer Email: thank you. thanks to a fantastic, tight ensemble with amazing chemistry and energy. thank you. the simplicity, and music, and dark, and fun...all just make me say yes. thanks. Play: rabbit causes dog Reviewer: annika Reviewer Email: Rating: 2 Stars I've seen a lot of plays (around 3 a week for the last 4 years) so I'm a somewhat sophicticated theatre-goer. However, I don't see where all the awe-struck praise in the other reviews comes from. The performers are talented, but this show seems to be a disorganized mish-mash of cliches about appalachia - incest, stupid yokels, etc. Despite the Walker Evans images hanging about the lobby, I get the feeling the cast made up this show out of whole cloth. Play: Rabbit Causes Dog Reviewer: Bruffy Reviewer Email: bruffy@cincyfringe.com Rating: 5 Stars Amazing and stunning. Even with a snoring audience member (not thier fault) the stayed poised and intent. Skillfull use of language and dance, speech and music. A beautiful reminder of why we do the Fringe. Come to Cincinnati!!! Play: Rabbit Causes Dog Reviewer: Reviewer Email: Rating: None I'm not sure what it was (though I have a vague idea of what it might have been about), but every second was riveting. See it! Play: Rabbit Causes Dog Reviewer: OneHotCynic Reviewer Email: Rating: 3 Stars This show has some really beautiful moment that carry real ironic whallup, and all three of the performers are talented and engaging, but ultimately it lacks dramatic drive and thematic development, and is neither funny enough nor moving enough to sustain itself without these things. Still, there are worthwhile ingredients here, and I hope the performers will revisit their script, drain some of the murk, and refine and develop some of the meaty bits. Until they do, it will remain a soupy mess. Play: Rabbit Causes Dog Reviewer: Slam Slaw Reviewer Email: Rating: 5 Stars The fact that a bit of the story flew by me is only incentive to go again. Wonderful physical performances by all the actors and expertly staged. Great use of lights, very funny, sometimes scary. Definitely definitely worth seeing. Play: Rabbit Causes Dog Reviewer: Lesley Reviewer Email: Rating: 5 Stars Amazing and creative! These three performers are incredibly talented!! I left the show feeling emotional and intrigued! Wonderful! Play: Rabbit Causes Dog Reviewer: Dylan Reviewer Email: Rating: 3 Stars I didn't really enjoy this show, but I'm very glad that I went. I generally like plays with a story, or with a strong narrative thread, so this one drove me crazy. It's random, disjointed, absurd and intensely nonlinear. It's a very mixed bag of psychodrama and emotional torment, with occasional humor. It was not fun to sit through. However, the acting was great (very intense performances by all three actors), and the use of the space was great. It was well done, for what it was. Go see it, even if you end up hating it. Play: Rabbit Causes Dog Reviewer: Charles Reviewer Email: Rating: 2 Stars I guess this play was not meant for me. The food bit was cute, as was the music and the knee-slappin'. The rest a bunch of random bits, left me cold. The warning section could have used a warning about scented talcum powder. Play: Rabbit Causes Dog Reviewer: Laura Davis Reviewer Email: pulloverproductions@hotmail.com Rating: 5 Stars Wow! What a refreshing show. This is like nothing I've seen in a long time. A dark story told through little scenes with multiple characters played by three talented actors. They were so inventive with their use of the space--the lights hanging from the ceiling that the actors would turn on and off for different moods and characters. There's just so much that this show has to offer. Physical theatre, humor, appalacian music, and a foreboding sense of macabre. Awesome! ---Laura from Elvis in Space Play: Rabbit Causes Dog Reviewer: Daniel Ransom Reviewer Email: dransom@mindspring.com Rating: 5 Stars I'm a fringe regular (several shows already this year, 20 last) and this stands out as one of the best I've ever seen. Really, one of the best pieces of theater I've seen. Abstract and subtle, it just grabs a hold of you, absorbs you into their movement, voices, and thoughts. It is not a linear story, more of pastiche of moments, gestures and charicterizations, with an Appalachian flavor. That gives it a mythic quality, as does the stage design (various bulbs and glass bottles, dangling from the ceiling, other oddities). The occasional (live) music really completes the piece. The audience was small, perhaps because this venue is a bit out of the normal Fringe loop. Don't let that keep you away! This is one of the most original and spellbinding works you can see this year. They deserve a full house. Seek them out. Play: Rabbit Causes Dog Reviewer: Karen penley Reviewer Email: Rating: 5 Stars ok, this is one of the ten best shows i have ever seen in my whole whole life of 45 years. my whole whole life of watching very very many many shows. this was exquisite. these guys are going to be famous. these guys should get bestest best of the fringe. ok, i'll tell you more. it's inventive physical theater. it twists and turns and it goes to so many brilliant, completely unusual and unique wondrous places. there is character, music, a great set, unusual lighting. it is and well choreographed and at the same time, loose and spontaneous. the three performers are all extremely talented, all of them. they have an incredible sense of nuance, rhythm, timing, humor. it's hard to write about it because there is so much that is good about it. just the best. it reminds me a bit of contraband only much funnier and more character driven. it's absurd and dark and haunting and just so so fucking imaginative. it charmed me all the way through with the way they wove so many elements and mo! ods together. ok, maybe there were two moments when i wanted it to end, but they only lasted for like 2 minutes and then i got charmed and drawn in again. Play: Rabbit causes Dog Reviewer: the lady from before Reviewer Email: Rating: 5 Stars Excellent ensemble work. This is the kind of play I kinda hold my breathe for when buying expensive tickets for Black Riders and am inevitably dissappointed when I see no play! I just thought it was fun. Play: Rabbit Causes Dog Reviewer: Evren Reviewer Email: evrenodcikin@yahoo.com Rating: 5 Stars I saw RCD in its initial run at the Phoenix. I was SO impressed. In a town that says it has a lot of experimental theatre (emphasis on says) - it was really great to find a show that was truly experimental and physical. Great work by the three actors! Play: Rabbit Causes Dog Reviewer: Haya Reviewer Email: Rating: 5 Stars An amazing union of talents. I, as an unsuspecting, mildly ignorant member of the audience, have witnessed a brilliant abundance of genius throughout the performance in "Rabbit Causes Dog." To my utter surprise in a matter of 45 minutes I laughed with all my heart, I froze in contemplation, and I cried real tears...I shall go again and definitely recommend that any person who needs to be taken away into the abstract should do as well!