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Hiding Behind Comets
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 17, 2005
Closed Apr 17, 2005
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

In Hiding Behind Comets, fraternal twins Honey and Troy, who tend their family-owned tavern, share an unusually strong bond. When a menacing stranger walks in and shares bone-chilling tales, it becomes clear that his visit to this small-town dive is not purely coincidental. As their relationship to him, and to each other, are exposed, this suspenseful story spirals into a harrowing and vicious thriller.

David Mogentale directs this play by Brian Dykstra.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



29th Street Rep
212 W 29th St
New York, NY 10001

This 60 seat off-off Broadway theater is a black box located in a commercial building. The company specializes in high-risk plays. A core group of regular actors bring in colleagues depending on the needs of the play it's producing.

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

If you belly up to the bar at the 29th Street Rep, you'll learn everything you need to know about the house mandate. I don't mean the bar that Mark Symczak has designed as the setting for Brian Dykstra's Hiding Behind Comets; I mean the lobby bar where, alongside the refreshments, soiled wife-beaters T-shirts featuring the 29th Street Rep logo are sold for 20 bucks a throw. Here also, a hand-written sign blares, "Where Brutal Theater Lives."

The 29th Street Rep palookas ain't just whistlin' "Dixie." Theirs is the place where Tracy Letts' Killer Joe bowed in Manhattan; where blue-collar specimens are often spread on a grimy slide and put under a battered microscope for close examination; wh[...]


Reviewed by David Finkle on Feb 18, 2005

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