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Up From the Ground

by Dan Carbone
preview by Kerry Reid in SF Metropolitan December 7, 1998

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He's not a Weber, but Dan Carbone's brand of weirdness has already won him comparisons to no less a comic genius than Jonathan Winters. His journey into the surreal, Up From the Ground, won critical raves and a nod as "Best of the Fest" at this year's San Francisco Fringe Festival. The title piece concerns a Southern family confronted by a bizarre object growing in their cornfield, and it feels very much like an episode of The Twilight Zone written by Flannery O'Connor. The beauty of Carbone's work lies not so much in its innate wierdness, but in how he's able to project that weirdness with childlike ease and grace, with none of the nauseating attempts at faux street jive that passes for "edgy" performance these days.

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