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The Deepest Play Ever: The Catharsis of Pathos
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 9, 2012
Closed Mar 25, 2012

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

In The Deepest Play Ever, our antiheroine Mother LaMadre and her rag-tag crew drag their wagon through the Fifth World War and the post-post-apocalyptic wasteland that is New Europe. Together they must navigate all the pitfalls (and rewards) of the dramatic art of drama to find the few remaining books the art-abolishing Evil Empire have yet to destroy.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



New Ohio Theatre
154 Christopher St
New York, NY 10014


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?


A heady mix of earnestness and tongue-in-cheek satire characterizes The Deepest Play Ever: The Catharsis of Pathos, presented by CollaborationTown at the New Ohio Theatre.

Geoffrey Decas O'Donnell's often amusing play is crammed full of literary allusions and pop culture references, and for the most part, directors Lee Sunday Evans and Jordan Seavey know when to play up the dramatic elements of the script, and when to take things less seriously.

The two primary sources of inspiration for the show (seen in a previous version at the 2006 New York International Fringe Festival) are Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children and Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of Doctor Faus[...]


Reviewed by Dan Bacalzo on Mar 15, 2012

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