A Play on Words by Brian Dykstra (59E59)
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened May 12, 2009
Closed May 30, 2009
Opened May 12, 2009
Closed May 30, 2009
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Seinfeld meets Waiting for Godot in this ferociously witty play on, about and exploding with language. Rusty and Max have been friends since grade school and they've been arguing almost the entire time. Today they're scheming up something big. Brian Dykstra's signature style crackles in this uproarious romp through backyard suburbia where two (slightly above) Average Joes spar in a relentlessly fanatical pursuit of what is said, what is intended, and what is.
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Whereas some suburban men might confine their debates to the relative merits of sports teams, in Brian Dykstra's witty (and wittily titled) A Play on Words, now being presented as part of the Americas Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theatres, Max (Dykstra) and Rusty (Mark Boyett) tussle over such issues as the implications of "insinuate" vs. "intimate," the origin of the expression "not give a hang," and the commercial history of grog.
Fortunately for us, these argumentative sticklers' frequent set-tos are no less fierce -- or funny -- for being so abstruse and picayune. These two wield recondite notions the way cavemen once brandished their clubs. And like many a topdog/underdog duo before[...]