[NEohioPAL] Review of "An Impending Rupture of the Belly" at none too fragile

[Bob Abelman via NEohioPAL]

none too fragile’s ‘An Impending Rupture’ enraptures



Bob Abelman

Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald, The Morning Journal

Member, International Association of Theatre Critics



Henny Penny, more commonly known as Chicken Little, is the featured protagonist in an early 19th century European morality tale about falsely believing that the world is coming to an end and crying out “The sky is falling!” while doing so.



Imagine, as playwright Matt Pelfrey has, that Chicken Little is a middle-aged suburbanite in post-9/11 America.  And that his wife Terri is pregnant with their first child.  And he has just had his first hit of crack cocaine.  



Welcome to the world of Pelfrey's dark one-act comedy “An Impending Rupture of the Belly,” which premiered in 2007, had a short Off-Broadway run in 2010, and is currently on stage at none too fragile.



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