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San Francisco Bay Guardian, August 2, 2006

 

…one of the more entertaining, unpredictable,
and intriguing pieces of theater around.

-- By Robert Avila


A typographer (Aimée Guillot), a geographer (Jamie Jones), and a stenographer (Michael Shipley) sit at a long table facing the audience, career-day style, and proceed to talk about what they do. And maybe that's all you need to know.

Except that what sounds like something designed to bore the living shit out of you is actually one of the more entertaining, unpredictable, and intriguing pieces of theater around. This playfully deadpan premise winds up three distinct personalities and unravels the monuments to self each has so lovingly, thoughtfully, obsessively constructed. But are they monuments, or are they sarcophagi? Or are they individual wormholes out of an entirely alienating universe and back in again through the side door?

Featuring a sharp and very amusing cast, and wonderfully staged by director Anne Kauffman, Encore Theater presents the West Coast premiere of the latest play from former local guy Adam Bock (Five Flights, Thursday), one that actually puts some mirth into the term job fair.

 




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