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Burn This
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 23, 2011
Closed May 1, 2011

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http://www.CenterTheatreGroup.org

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Anna is a choreographer who has lost Robbie, her best friend and collaborator, in a tragic accident. Pale is Robbie's brother, a powderkeg lost in his own way, who arrives at her doorstep in the middle of the night.

Burn This is the anti-love story: tragic and explosive and--often in its most frictional moments--deftly funny and heartwrenchingly beautiful.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



Mark Taper Forum
135 N Grand Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90012


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

Passion trumps practicality in the the recently decased Lanford Wilson's
Burn This, which gets a crisp staging at Mark Taper Forum. Wilson's crackling dialogue is well served by an intense cast of four and packaged with a set so stellar that Center Theater Group may get six bids a night to lease the unit.

Wilson's 1987 play follows friends of Robbie, a talented dancer/choreographer whose untimely death has left them questioning their own destinies. Anna (Zabryna Guevara), Robbie's roommate and dance collaborator, fears that he held most of the aptitude in the couple. As an artist, she focuses on truth; something that puts her at odds with in-the-closet Robbie's family.

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Reviewed by Jonas Schwartz on Apr 4, 2011

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