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Fatal Attraction: A Greek Tragedy
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jul 10, 2005
Closed Aug 27, 2005
Running Time:
1hr. 10min.
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Gorilla Productions presents the deconstructed Off-Broadway production of the seminal 80's film, Fatal Attraction: A Greek Tragedy, by Alana McNair and Kate Wilkinson, and directed by Timothy Haskell. Corey Feldman stars.

Fatal Attraction: A Greek Tragedy is a new comedy that lovingly, liberally and loosely satirizes the well-known thriller film from 1987. A big-time corporate lawyer has a one-night stand with a no-nonsense business woman while his wife is away. When the corporate hag forgets her place, all heck breaks loose! The park, the opera, the bunny, and the tub ensue.

Like a Greek tragedy, the production adopts a chorus that comments on the action by using texts from the Greek tragedy oeuvre, as well as from turn of the century home etiquette propaganda. This stage to screen adaptation is very much its own story, told with a kinetic beat, a boiled bunny dream/dance sequence and lots of Kung-Pow action.
Strong Language and Sexual Content

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



East Thirteenth Street Theatre
136 E 13th St
New York, NY 10003


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

O ye theater gods, who hath provided us such '80s kitsch! (We shall not want.) It would be hubris for one critic to try to stem the tide of retro revivalism, and anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed Fatal Attraction: A Greek Tragedy. Sure, the show's humor is all about sex jokes, ham acting, and watered-down postmodernism -- and Woody Allen did the mock-Greek Chorus thing better years ago in Mighty Aphrodite. Still, there's something undeniably appealing about watching Goonies star Corey Feldman playing a misogynistic character named "Michael Douglas" in a spoof of the eponymous melodrama. In the capable hands of director Timothy Haskell and a creative design team, it's a hilarious diversion.

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Reviewed by Adam Klasfeld on Jul 11, 2005

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