The Break-Up and The Happy Sad
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 22, 2008
Closed Apr 26, 2008
Opened Mar 22, 2008
Closed Apr 26, 2008
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The Flea premieres The Break-Up and The Happy Sad, an evening-length work that features two thematically related one act plays by Tommy Smith and Ken Urban. Sherri Kronfeld directs.
In The Break Up, a man falls in love with his drug dealer, with disastrous results. In The Happy Sad, Stan loves Annie, but Annie doesn't love Stan. Marcus loves Aaron, but Marcus doesn't like monogamy.
The production features nine members of The Bats, the resident acting ensemble at The Flea.
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Dysfunctional romantic attachment is the theme that runs through The Flea Theater's latest production, The Break-Up and The Happy Sad, directed by Sheri Kronfeld, and featuring the Flea's resident company, The Bats. Unfortunately, neither of the two short plays that make up the evening have much interesting to say on the subject.
Tommy Smith's under-ten-minute piece, The Break-Up, which serves as the curtain-raiser, tellis the story of a young, white male named Gary (Tom Lipinski) who demonstrates an overzealous affection for his African-American drug dealer, Spartacus (Ronald Washington). Gary's attempts at complimenting Spartacus are layered with racial insults as he makes comments about[...]