Just Cause

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Writer/director Zack Russell's dark comedy about a group of would-be terrorists, Just Cause, now receiving its world premiere at the Flea Theater, has loads of satiric potential. The title has an amusing double meaning, as it alludes to both a zealot's belief and a slacker's reason for doing anything -- or nothing. Unfortunately, the playwright does not always make the necessary connections to allow the audience to get the most out of the work.

In the piece, homeland security specialist Martha Blackwater (Cynthia Whalen) conspires with an unnamed police officer (Sean McIntyre) and the duplicitous August (Greg Engbrecht) to form a terrorist cell out of a group of twenty-somethings with seem[...]