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Summer Shorts: Cross Wires

by Isis Arts Collective
Review by Baghdachi

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'Summer Shorts: Crossed Wires' Exit Theatre, 156 Eddy; 1-877-838-7601. $10-25. Thurs-Sat, 8pm. Through Aug 16. Nearly everything about these eight short plays is brutal: the plots are brutal, the lines are brutal, the sets are brutal, the acting is brutal, the satire is truly brutal, and even the lighting, which illuminates only in a strictly technical sense, is strangely brutal. This brutality is, depending on your views, a great strength. The artistic directors are convinced that the Bush administration is very bad (heresy!), the Department of Homeland Security is a menace, and our civilization is putting a gun to its own head. Hence these plays. In Odd Scraps from an Extinguished America future archaeologists ponder our remains (the results are ponderous); Talk is neat little David Ives rip-off; Connecting and Roadside Assistance are thoughtful explorations of relationships suitable for the Lifetime Channel; and at the end comes Pinter's Mountain Play – not one of his lighter works. As an exercise in pessimism, this show is an unqualified success. (Baghdachi)

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