Spacemen from Space

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Cowboys, aliens, gangsters, G-men, rogue scientists, robots, flying superheroes, and masked villains -- Ian W. Hill's Spacemen from Space, at the Brick Theater, contains nearly all of the classic archetypes from the bygone era of B-movie serials.

Part homage, part parody, the show is decidedly ambitious -- and three hours in length -- but grows increasingly tiresome as it wends its way through multiple plot twists. By the end, it doesn't seem as if Hill is interested in much more than creating a mash-up of the various elements that comprise a story of this kind.

As the play begins, the weather across the world has gone wild except in a small town in the American Southwest known as Rancho [...]