[NEohioPAL] Review of "Becky Shaw" at Dobama Theatre

[Bob Abelman via NEohioPAL]

Dobama's intriguing 'Becky Shaw' is a study in human dysfunction

Bob Abelman

Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald, The Morning Journal

Member, International Association of Theatre Critics 

 

Theater is at its best when serving as a petri dish in which the more toxic aspects of the human condition are allowed to fester and ferment before our very eyes and from a safe distance.  

 

What is particularly intriguing about the controlled but corrosive environment that is Gina Gionfriddo's "Becky Shaw" is that the agar that incubates her sample of detestable, damaged and dysfunctional characters produces one laugh after another.  It is rare and wonderful when so much comedy comes out of something so caustic, and Dobama Theatre's superb production doesn't miss a gag or an opportunity to activate the gag reflex.

 

For more of this review, go to:  http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/columnists/bob_abelman/

 

 
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