Paradise Park
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 2, 2008
Closed Apr 6, 2008
Opened Mar 2, 2008
Closed Apr 6, 2008
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Paradise Park, by Charles Mee, is directed by Daniel Fish.
Welcome to Paradise Park, an amusement park that opens up into all of America and beyond. Meet the inhabitants of this bizarre carnival of life, including a ventriloquist, his dummy, and a teenage girl on the run. From Futureworld to Londonland, the Grand Canyon to Fred's Polynesian Dive Shop, step right up to this wild ride of fruit cake tosses, underwater ballets, square dances, and star gazing, too.
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
Signature Center
480 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
Designed by Frank Gehry for the Signature Theatre, Signature Center features three intimate theatres connected by a lobby with café, bar and bookstore, a studio theatre, a rehearsal studio and the Company's administrative offices.
480 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
Designed by Frank Gehry for the Signature Theatre, Signature Center features three intimate theatres connected by a lobby with café, bar and bookstore, a studio theatre, a rehearsal studio and the Company's administrative offices.
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Charles Mee's third and final work in his Signature Theater Company season, Paradise Park, calls to mind his previous collage-like masterpieces such as bobrauschenbergamerica and True Love. Unfortunately, despite a handful of strikingly effective moments, the production fails to measure up to the playwright's past successes.
This latest extravaganza, directed by Daniel Fish, utilizes American theme parks as both structure and metaphor. The narrative is loosely tied together by a group of individuals who have been at the same amusement park (or perhaps it's simultaneously every amusement park) for anywhere between one day and ten years. Among the denizens of this questionable environment a[...]