What do we do when pain and suffering come our way? Where do we turn? How do we cope? In
Linus & Alora, an ambitious, yet surprisingly intimate, multi-media play at the Flea Theatre, playwright Andrew Irons suggests that we might turn to our own imaginations for help. While the play hovers somewhere between profound and pretentious, as well as teetering between entertaining and tedious, one cannot at any point deny its intensity.

Irons gives us a young woman, Alora (Melle Powers) dying of cancer who finds solace in imagining the child that she will never have, and summoning up a wild support group trio that brightens her life. More significantly, though, before she leaves this earth she m[...]