[NEohioPAL] Review of "Life x 3" by Cesear's Forum

[Bob Abelman via NEohioPAL]

Cesear’s Forum stages ‘Life x 3,’ offers schadenfreude on steroids



Bob Abelman

Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald, The Morning Journal

Member, International Association of Theatre Critics



Like a 19th century French impressionist painter, contemporary playwright Yasmina Reza reproduces mundane moments in our lives and leaves viewers to draw their own conclusions about the meaning.  



But rather than using pigment powders and linseed oil, her medium consists of the vagaries and subtle nuances of intimate social discourse and the power of words. 



Written in 2000, translated from the French by Christopher Hampton, and currently being staged by Cesear’s Forum at Playhouse Square’s miniscule Kennedy’s Down Under performance space – where no one but the folks in the front row has an unobstructed view of the stage – is Reza’s one-act opus on unpleasantness, “Life x 3.”



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