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Red Noir
Wednesdays-Saturdays. Continues through Feb. 27 2010; $20
212-352-3101
Theater: Off-Off Broadway
Intended as a savvy deconstruction and updating of film noir conventions and end-times paranoia, poet and playwright Anne Waldman instead trades in nostalgic and trite signifiers of avant-garde theater. From the in-the-round staging, to the 21-person ensemble's recurring chants of "Anarchy!" and the torturous final half-hour of participatory interpretive dance, Waldman and director Judith Malina go through a decades-old checklist of Things Experimental Theater Does. What the performance gets across, though, is how a vital and storied experimental theater company can become a parody of its former self.
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The Living Theatre
- 21 Clinton St., at Houston (map)
- Lower East Side
- 212-352-3101
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