Another Life
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 8, 2012
Closed Mar 24, 2012
Opened Mar 8, 2012
Closed Mar 24, 2012
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A surreal, real, and satiric story of a mogul and his daughter locked in a titanic struggle, Another Life offers a whirl-wind trip through the past ten years. Greed, torture, war-lust and sexual enslavement vie with a subtle but growing resistance that leads to brave acts of caring and whistle-blowing. Another Life employs inventive language and memorable characters to bring to light questions of complicity and conscience in civil society.
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It's hard to know what to make of Karen Malpede's ambitious if perplexing play, Another Life, now being presented by the Irondale Ensemble at The Irondale Center in Brooklyn.
What feels like the first 20 minutes of the two-hour, intermissionless work consists of a disjointed monologue delivered by one of the main characters, Handel (George Bartieneff), the head of a mercenary army. He doesn't speak in sentences or phrases but rather in stray fragments of words. Exactly what he's saying, it's hard to say. In fact, it takes some time to realize he's not speaking in a foreign language.
This groundlessness sets the tone for the amorphous journey that follows, taking us from New York to Afghan[...]