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- If you baked Noel Coward, George Bernard Shaw, and Hans Christian Andersen
into a pie, you'd get a dish that tastes a bit like the way Sean Owens
writes. The analogy might be weird, but it is appropriate, because synesthesia
— that mix of sensations — is a calling card for San Francisco's
master of the absurdly funny play. After experiencing productions of Tincture,
Owens' six-woman exploration of color and causality, or Odd by Nature,
an evening of bite-sized dramas and comic songs to delight both the palate
and the mind, your senses are in as much of a spin as your sides are in
stitches. With a highly developed sense of the silly and a consummate feeling
for dramatic structure and comic delay, Owens has rightly won adoration
among Bay Area audiences as a playwright for the past 15 years. He's also
a virtuosic and hilarious performer who can carry off a silk dressing gown
and slippers with more panache than anyone else around.
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