[NEohioPAL] Review of "Central Concern" at Cleveland Public Theatre

[Bob Abelman]

‘Central Concern’ at Cleveland Public Theatre offers an 

absurdist civics lesson 



Bob Abelman

Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald, The Morning Journal

  

Imagine if Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s political satire “Threepenny Opera,” where the characters make life decisions based solely on the desire for material things, was about the Ohio real estate industry.  Then picture this play-with-music living inside the grotesque world of a Hieronymus Bosch painting that is populated by the menacing but buffoonish Blue Meanies from “Yellow Submarine.” 



Such is “Central Concern,” a delightfully subversive and genuinely bizarre work conceived and directed by Pandora Robertson, who is the 2018 recipient of the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for playwriting.  The one-act, 85-minute play’s world premiere production, in partnership with the Ohio City Theatre Project, is on stage and pretty much in your face at Cleveland Public Theatre.  



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


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