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- article in the SFist by Karen McKevitt
So what if these are staged readings? The Cutting Ball Experimental Plays
Festival is one of the few, if not the only festival of solely avant-garde
work. A new play is featured during each of the three weekends. Up first
is Janet Allard's The Girl Triptych, which follows a Gen-X heroine on her
mythic journey, where she encounters a desiccated Don Quixote, a real estate
queen and a fallen Southern belle, among others. Up next is Robert Alexander's
Alien Motel 29: The Secret Out-Takes of The Ebony Lady Macbeth, which echoes
The Cutting Ball's previous production of the Scottish play. But this one's
an afrocentric adaptation told from Lady M's perspective. Up last is Kevin
Oakes--ah, Kevin Oakes, that really bizarre New York playwright who gave
us The Vomit Talk of Ghosts, a previous Risk Is This entry that Cutting
Ball fully produced in 2003. This time he brings us the more palatable
title of evolutionist's club, a tale about a research scientist and his
emotionally fragile wife who receive a mysterious stranger in their field
house on the edge of the wilderness. Thank god for Cutting Ball, which
brings us truly experimental new plays instead of those with New York's
bland stamp of approval
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