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Last of the Red-Hot Dadas

by Kerry Reid

review by Jean Schiffman Backstage West (June 13, 2002)
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And speaking of new plays: Exit Theatre's DivaFest was a
great idea that will hopefully be an annual occurrence. I caught
erstwhile San Francisco playwright Kerry Reid's comic and
touching solo piece, The Last of the Red-Hot Dadas, in which
audacious, turn-of-the-20th-century performance artist
Baroness Elsa von-Freytag Loringhoven--called by some the
mother of Dada--rants about her life in art and her many
disappointing lovers. Garbed in Kathryn Wood's hilarious
costume, Exit artistic director Christina Augello brought a
cheery bitterness, flamboyance, and humor to the role under
John Warren's imaginative direction. Liebe Wetzel's whimsical
found-object puppets enhanced the proceedings.

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