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21/One: Twenty-One Shows in One Hour
3 Plays About Your Mom
Antarctica
ARE YA WORKING?
Being Something: Living "Young" and Growing "Old" in Oakland
Bound and Gagged
Brilliant Disguise
Brother #1
Cervix With A Smile
Chinese Clown Cabaret
CornTato
Divided We Fall
Do The Clam
El Camino Loco
Fear of a Brown Planet
Fresh Meat
Go Kibbitz
go!
Got Lucky
Green Bamboo Hermitage
Here to There
LOUNGE-ZILLA!
Love Scenes
Magnificence of the Disaster
MEDIAVOID
Name You Can Trust, A
nEO-sURREALISTS
Paper Dolls

Playing in the Dark
Politics on the Edge
Revolving Madness
SHIFTINGS
Show me where it hurts
Slow Moves, Rich Tales
Sperm Warfare
Thersites
Waiting for the Relevance
WALKING BACK TO BROOKLYN
Werewolf, The
When You Stand Alone
Yellow Tunic, The
You May Now Kiss.... My Sass
 

Play: Brother #1
Reviewer: Brian
3 Stars
This play demonstrates the typical American reaction to foreign holocausts/slaughters. Like Darfur, Ruanda, Bosnia, Cambodia, etc., it's no big deal.The staging is great and Ron Evans is superb. The Minh character, so rigid in process, I assumed to be Pol Pot's daughter. Her interaction with two caucasians who don't give a shit about her father is done well. The Colin character is too encyclopedic, fact after fact. Certainly, a different read on the Killing Fields.


Play: Brother #1
Reviewer: Pat

Brother #1 is thought provoking and lends itself to lots of discussion after viewing. The janitor gave an excellent portrayal of the typical American response to atrocities that occur all over the world. When faced with the tragic facts--we are shocked, disgusted but then calmly continue to go about our daily chores with no change in coarse or commitment to prevent genocide in other parts of the world. In some respects I found the play to be hauntingly more realistic than absurd.


Play: Brother #1
Reviewer: Lisa
5 Stars
These people get Theatre of the Absurd! History and tragedy! Genocide and absurdity! A must see for the serious theatre people!


Play: Brother#1
Reviewer: Bet Gioso
4 Stars
You laugh and you think. It's like Godot. The more you think about it, the more you like it, And Jerry the custodian is a crack-up. "Adios Motherf...er"


Play: brother #1
Reviewer: mike
2 Stars
well, it's true, I didn't know anything about pol pot the dictater guy, and now I do. but where is the rage about these millions dead? where is the drama? what's up with the two white guys calmly dicussing genocide, while the hysterical fanatic funny little asian woman frets about the stage?
I guess its a little absurd.